Amanda Noth-Matchett, chief nursing officer for the adult academic health center at IU Health, says room design was planned with the goal to “support patient care for the next 100 years.” (IBJ ...

Illustration of the experiment how an existing hospital room was transformed into a 3D virtual environment and then redesigned based on the Evidence-Based Design principle. In an online study, virtual ...

I work in a state-of-the-art facility designed with a focus on the patient experience. Each patient room is bound by a large near-floor-to-ceiling window, inviting in the outside world and the urban ...

A study from Texas A&M University reveals that hospital rooms designed with natural elements—like indoor plants, green decor and views of green nature—significantly enhance relaxation and mental ...

In an acute care hospital, the intensive care unit staff must effectively use specialized equipment, while making split-second decisions pertaining to the care of a large number of medically fragile ...

Planning for the renovation and modernization of the emergency department at Carroll Hospital in Westminster received a bit of help from the Carroll County Department of Fire and Emergency Medical ...

The following article is written by Joyce Thomas, senior vice president, operations, for Regent Surgical Health. Perhaps the title of this column is an oxymoron. The terms ‘efficiency’ and ‘hospital ...

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