A hospital’s infrastructure, including accessibility of antiseptic hand rub dispensers and single-or multi-bed patient rooms, can influence healthcare-associated colonization and infection rates, ...

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 ...

Everything from shared rooms to alarm noises can be detrimental to sick patients trying to recover in the hospital, according to Dhruv Khullar, MD, a resident physician at Massachusetts General ...

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 ...

Air is the primary carrier of heat, moisture, contaminants, and airborne pathogens in patient rooms, isolation rooms, and operating rooms. Temperature levels and contaminant concentrations in patient ...

This blog post was authored by Sara Gally, NCIDQ, EDAC, Interior Design Principal, HDR. Pediatric healthcare environments are evolving to support more than just clinical outcomes. Increasingly, they ...

United Hospital Center opened an expanded respiratory unit with 28 AI-enhanced patient rooms in Bridgeport, W.Va.

Child-friendly, not childish – that’s the mantra. Designing for young patients means designing spaces that inspire confidence, encourage playfulness, and offer hope. Our goal is to deliver pediatric ...

Active chilled beams systems employ hydronic sensible cooling with low fan power, which makes them potentially more energy-efficient than the traditional air-based HVAC systems. Revision to ...

Elderly patients risk feeling abandoned and lonely under plans for all new NHS hospitals to have single-occupier rooms only, MPs warn. Ministers want to open 46 new hospitals at a cost of £60billion ...