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WEBThe 239,00-square-foot state mental health hospital in Indianapolis is one of the facility tours offered at the 2024 HCD Conference in Indianapolis, Oct. 5-8. The 650,000-square-foot project adds a new patient tower, expands services, and transforms a parking lot into a new community park space. The 12,000-square-foot medical and ...
Clinic Design: The Exam Room - HCD Magazine
WEBMay 30, 2012 · While most exam rooms feature basic components that have been standard for many years, their size, interior layout, aesthetics, and relationship to adjacent spaces are evolving.This is primarily because the activities occurring within exam rooms have changed in the past decade—and will continue to change.Exam rooms vary between clinics depending on location, care philosophy, patient ...
Healing Hues: Choosing Paint Colors for Healthcare
WEBMay 11, 2012 · You want a nice balance of both warm and cool colors. Cool colors tend to be more calming, so things that are in the blues and the blue-greens, those types of colors really put people at ease because they do bring a sense of tranquility. But you don’t want to get so cool that it feels cool. So you want to balance those colors with some warmth ...
Planning and Designing Highly Functional Nurses' Stations
WEBNov 1, 2006 · Key Design Principles. Regardless of which organizational type one chooses, our research team has identified five key principles to consider when designing a nurses’ station or series of stations. 1. Allow for Control and Flexibility. The ability for staff and patients to control their environment is crucial.
Construction and Engineering Trends - HCD Magazine
WEBHealthcare Design provides editorial content that digs into the latest trends and helps industry members navigate the challenging healthcare construction landscape. Recent healthcare projects will provide a backdrop for the latest advancements in team-building processes and delivery methods, including integrated-project delivery, design-build ...
Imagining The Hospital Of The Future - HCD Magazine
WEBDec 17, 2021 · Imagining The Hospital Of The Future. The accomplishments of the healthcare industry over the last 18-plus months has been nothing short of impressive. Operational, spatial, technological, and relational adjustments to the care delivery surges and infection control needs have exposed the resilience of …
Key Considerations in Patient Room Design, Part 1
WEBApr 1, 2006 · Once the patient room plan is determined, the hospital must confirm the detailed design features for the headwall, footwall, nursing support area, and family amenities. Headwall. The wall behind and the ceiling over the patient’s head are the most important spaces for incorporating clinical care elements.
Healthcare Design Webinar Schedule - HCD Magazine
WEBThe HCD 10: UW Health, Outstanding Organization. August 30, 2024 | Awards + Events UW Health (Madison, Wis.) is the 2024 HCD 10 Outstanding Organization. The Healthcare Design webinar schedule offers a list of upcoming webinars as well as an archive of past webinars, and links to available on-demand recordings.
Design Rx: Delivering Operationally Efficient Pharmacies
WEBSep 1, 2015 · Moving away from small satellite locations, hospitals pharmacies are being built in centralized locations to better leverage clinical pharmacists’ expertise as part of the medical team, and to more efficiently fill, package, and deliver medication to patient units. Meanwhile, more complex medical inventories, regulations mandating strict handling procedures, and the need for tight stock ...
The History of Hospitals and Wards - HCD Magazine
WEBMar 11, 2010 · A brief history of hospitals and wards. Hopefully, this brief history of hospitals helps illustrate the tremendous advances over the past 2,000-plus years from the temples and pauper wards to private rooms. The challenge facing us now, as in the past, is how to continue to improve the quality of the patient environment by providing cost ...