March 4, 2013 Roberto Traversari, BSc, MBA; Rien Goedhart, MSc; and Jan Maarten Schraagen, PhD
Introduction
The objective of this study is to evaluate a traditionally designed operating room using simulation of various surgical workflows. The following hypotheses were tested during the evaluation process:
The 3 x 3 m2 clean area surface is large enough to carry out all interventions...
March 4, 2013 Ron Smith, AIA, ACHA, EDAC
Lean-Led Hospital Design: Creating the Efficient Hospital of the Future
Naida Grunden and Charles Hagood, MBA. (2012). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group. Hardcover, 338 pages. ISBN-10: 143986828X; ISBN-13: 978-1439868287
March 4, 2013 Susan Rodiek, PhD; May M. Boggess, PhD; Chanam Lee, PhD; Geoffrey J. Booth, MPub Admin; and Alisan Morris, MSLD
March 4, 2013 Gesine Marquardt, PhD and Tom Motzek, MSc
March 4, 2013 Jon Sanford, MArch and Sheila J. Bosch, PhD
December 5, 2012 by Sara O. Marberry, EDAC
Design Details for Health: Making the Most of Design's Healing Potential. (2011). Cynthia A. Leibrock and Debra Harris with a foreword by Wayne Ruga. New York, NY. John Wiley & Sons. Hardcover, 304 pages. ISBN: 978-0-470-52471-8.
December 5, 2012 by Debajyoti Pati, PhD, FIIA, LEED®AP; Jennie Evans, RN, BS, LEED®AP; Thomas E. Harvey Jr., FIIA, MPH, FACHA, LEED®AP; and Doug Bazuin, MS
Flexibility, traditionally considered an important attribute of healthcare design, will become even more crucial to the financial viability of healthcare organizations in the future because the central focus of future healthcare in the United States will be cost curtailment (The Advisory Board...
August 14, 2012 Robert White, MD
The last bastion of the open hospital ward championed by Florence Nightingale has been the newborn intensive care unit (NICU), for perceived reasons both medical and pecuniary. Justice delayed has not been denied, though, because nowhere in the hospital have the effects of the physical environment...
August 14, 2012 John V. Hartline, MD
Foundations of Developmental Care
Joy V. Browne, PhD, and Robert D. White, MD (Eds.)
Clinics in Perinatology, 2011, Volume 38, No. 4. W. B. Saunders Co. ISSN: 0095-5106; ISBN-13: 978-1-4557-1119-2
May 15, 2012 D. Kirk Hamilton, FAIA, FACHA, EDAC
May 15, 2012 David A. Tam, MD, MBA, FACHE
Introduction
Palomar Pomerado Health (PPH) is the largest public health district in California. PPH currently comprises two acute care hospitals, two skilled nursing facilities, an ambulatory surgery center, several outpatient facilities, home health and rehabilitation services, and an affiliated...
May 15, 2012 Barry S. Rabner, MPHA
In 2003, Princeton HealthCare System (PHCS) completed a strategic plan that called for the replacement of its 220-bed acute care hospital, University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP). The decision was driven by the need to serve a growing and aging population and the demand for new programs,...
