After thousands of years of medical care provided in homes and religious buildings, health care moved into the public sphere. Buildings were...
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Each year, thousands of buildings, including many healthcare facilities, are entered into architecture award programs, hoping to be recognized as the...
With life, there is illness. Some of the earliest examples of life on Earth, bacteria, show evidence of invasion by viruses. Our earliest recorded...
Projects to improve the patient's environment are critical to optimizing patient outcomes. Getting rid of moisture-trapping materials, opening rooms...
Exploration of the Golden Age of Microbiology would not be complete without a look at how its discoveries impacted hospitals and medical care....
Mental health facilities, including behavioral health and addiction treatment centers, present unique challenges to infection control. While most...
Last week's post introduced the work of Louis Pasteur, the father of microbiology. It was not long after Pasteur proposed that microorganisms were to...
You go to a professional conference and learn about an exciting new medical innovation. You think it might work at your facility, so you go ahead and...
Just over 150 years ago, the existence of bacteria was merely a hypothesis. Many scientists still believed that food spoilage and human infections...
Home health care has been growing steadily for the past decade and shows no sign of slowing. A growing number of health care services are being...
In last week's post, we described a pervasive disease that so affected the global population that it found its way into visual, musical, and literary...
In healthcare, we want fast innovation and instant implementation - but we also want our safety to be assured, and for our care to make sense...