Architecture

Corporate Sustainability: The Environmental Design and Human Resource Management Interface in Healthcare Settings

March 4, 2013 Hessam Sadatsafavi, MA and John Walewski, PhD

Lean-Led Hospital Design: Creating the Efficient Hospital of the Future

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

Can Better Outdoor Environments Lead to Cost Benefits in Assisted Living Facilities Through Increased Word-of-Mouth Referrals?

March 4, 2013 Susan Rodiek, PhD; May M. Boggess, PhD; Chanam Lee, PhD; Geoffrey J. Booth, MPub Admin; and Alisan Morris, MSLD

How to Rate the Quality of a Research Paper: Introducing a Helpful Algorithm for Architects and Designers

March 4, 2013 Gesine Marquardt, PhD and Tom Motzek, MSc

Process Simulation During the Design Process Makes the Difference: Process Simulations Applied to a Traditional Design

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...

An Investigation of Noncompliant Toilet Room Designs for Assisted Toileting

March 4, 2013 Jon Sanford, MArch and Sheila J. Bosch, PhD

Design Details for Health: Making the Most of Design's Healing Potential

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.

Factors Impeding Flexible Inpatient Unit Design

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...

Foundations of Developmental Care

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

Small Comforts: Evidence-Based Design Comes to the NICU

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...

Sound Levels, Staff Perceptions, and Patient Outcomes During Renovation Near the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

August 14, 2012 Amber W. Trickey, MS, CPH, Cody C. Arnold, MD, MSc, MPH, Ankit Parmar, MD, and Robert E. Lasky, PhD

Introduction Advancing methods in medical practice often requires new healthcare facilities and improvements to existing facilities. Renovation projects create substantial noise and changes in providers' work routines that may interrupt ongoing patient care. In neonatal intensive care units (...

Affordances of the Care Environment for People With Dementia-An Assessment Study

August 14, 2012 Päivi Topo, PhD, Helinä Kotilainen, MSc(Arch), and Ulla Eloniemi-Sulkava, PhD

Introduction Studies on the physical environment and well-being of people with dementia have shown that environments can promote engagement, independence, and functioning.