Planning and Designing Healthcare Facilities
Planning and Designing Healthcare Facilities

Author: Vijai Kumar Singh

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-10-30

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1315393484

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The planning and design of healthcare facilities has evolved over the previous decades from "function follows design" to "design follows function." Facilities stressed the functions of healthcare providers but patient experience was not fully considered. The design process has now crucially evolved, and currently, the impression a hospital conveys to its patients and community is the primary concern. The facilities must be welcoming, comfortable, and exude a commitment to patient well-being. Rapid changes and burgeoning technologies are now major considerations in facility design. Without flexibility, hospitals face quicker obsolescence if designs are not forward-thinking. Planning and Designing Healthcare Facilities: A Lean, Innovative, and Evidence-Based Approach explores recent developments in hospital design. Medical facilities have been adapted to the requirements of clinical functions. Recently, the needs of patients and clinical pathways have been recognized. With the patient at the center of the process, the flow of tasks becomes the guiding principle as hospital design must employ evidence-based thinking, and process management methods such as Lean become central. The authors explain new concepts to reduce healthcare delivery cost, but keep quality the primary consideration. Concepts such as sustainability (i.e., Green Hospitals) and the use of new tools and technologies, such as information and communication technology (ICT), Lean, and evidence-based planning and innovations are fully explained.

Healthcare Design Basics
Healthcare Design Basics

Author: Mark Karlen

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2023-02-09

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1119813727

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HEALTHCARE DESIGN BASICS An approachable and robust treatment of designing and planning spaces for use in healthcare settings In Healthcare Design Basics, a team of distinguished interior architecture practitioners and educators delivers an up-to-date text covering the critical aspects of healthcare design, preparing students for a specialty rapidly growing in importance and size. The book adopts an approach designed to crystalize the most important elements of broad range of ambulatory facilities for healthcare design students and new professionals in a clear, concise, and approachable way. The authors combine a broad overview of numerous ambulatory healthcare typologies with exercises that allow students to prepare detailed plans for many of the most commonly used rooms and typologies in the healthcare industry, thus preparing them for the demands of professional positions. The book also includes: Step by step studio guidance outlining the basic design elements required for a wide range of ambulatory healthcare facilities and rooms Comprehensive explorations of the demands of new and improved healthcare facilities that meet the needs of an aging population Practical discussions of the space planning challenges involved in designing rooms and facilities for use during public health crises, including pandemics Dozens of full-color images that illustrate and highlight important concepts, examples, and design solutions Written for students of interior design, architecture, and emerging professionals, Healthcare Design Basics also benefits professionals tasked with the initial planning and design of ambulatory facilities, and other healthcare settings.

Design That Cares
Design That Cares

Author: Janet R. Carpman

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-05-18

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 1118235401

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Design That Cares: Planning Health Facilities for Patients and Visitors, 3rd Edition is the award-winning, essential textbook and guide for understanding and achieving customer-focused, evidence-based health care design excellence. This updated third edition includes new information about how all aspects of health facility design – site planning, architecture, interiors, product design, graphic design, and others - can meet the needs and reflect the preferences of customers: patients, family and visitors, as well as staff. The book takes readers on a journey through a typical health facility and discusses, in detail, at each stop along the way, how design can demonstrate care both for and about patients and visitors. Design that Cares provides the definitive roadmap to improving customer experience by design.

Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design
Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design

Author: Richard Lyle Miller

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780393730722

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A state-of-the-art blueprint for architects, planners, and hospital administrators, Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design provides innovative ideas and concrete guidelines for planning and designing facilities for the rapidly changing healthcare system.

Planning, Design, and Construction of Health Care Facilities
Planning, Design, and Construction of Health Care Facilities

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9781599408880

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"A health care facility's new or improved design establishes the basis for safe and effective care within that structure. Designing and executing a construction or renovation project requires resources, education, communication, and collaboration throughout the process. When patient and worker safety are at risk, the stakes for a successful project are even higher. This third edition of Planning, Design, and Construction of Health Care Facilities--developed in conjunction with the American Institute of Architects Academy of Architecture for Health (AIA-AAH)--presents a comprehensive guide for health care organizations around the world looking to build new facilities or update current structures"--Back cover.

Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design Third Edition
Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design Third Edition

Author: Richard L Miller

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2012-02-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0393733092

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An updated version of a work that has introduced three generations of students and professionals to the state-of-the-art in creating healing environments. A celebrated standard for architects, planners, and hospital administrators, Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design has introduced three generations of students and professionals to the state-of-the-art practice of creating structures that are healing environments for those who are ill, while promoting wellness and comfort for all who use them. The third edition of this comprehensive work includes all new case studies and updated text providing innovative ideas and practical guidelines for planning and designing facilities in the rapidly changing landscape of the healthcare world. Drawing on some fifty years of experience at one of the country’s leading healthcare architecture firms—Earl Swensson Associates (ESa)—authors Richard L. Miller, FAIA, Earl S. Swensson, FAIA, and J. Todd Robinson, AIA, explore the current and emerging trends in medical care, technology, and delivery as practiced in a rich cross section of examples of healthcare facilities from around the country. In this new edition they touch on such topics as Lean and LEED practices, evidence-based design, Planetree design, and other important issues facing contemporary and future designers. They expand coverage of the increasingly important topics covered in previous editions, such as women’s and children’s healthcare and care for the elderly. This new edition also explores the latest thinking on everything from vast new medical campuses to continuous-care retirement communities and from freestanding facilities to template designs for networks of hospitals. In short, the authors take a fresh look at the latest advances in the field and explain how these advances are affecting the design of hospitals and other healthcare facilities and the resulting impact for the future.

Health and Medical Facilities Design
Health and Medical Facilities Design

Author: Robert J. Kapsch

Publisher:

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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The Federal Agencies have a large involvement in the area of medical facility design, both in directly operated Federal facilities and indirectly through grant, loan and funding programs. Because of the impact of technology and because of the very large cost for new medical facilities, the last few years there has been the rise of a field best described as medical facility research. These papers, presented at a National Bureau of Statndards' Federal Agency Workshop, described the latest medical facility research efforts by the Federal Agencies including, the Department of Defense, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Veteran's Administration and the National Bureau of Standards.