Read any hospital design article or walk the floors of any healthcare trade show and you will see these three words: "Easy to Clean." With the...
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Today's hospital beds are a product of 1800s innovation, steadily improving with each decade's advancements in health care, engineering, and...
Physicians and other healthcare workers take an oath - whether literally or simply by taking up a profession in medicine - to "first, do no harm" to...
Evidence-based design became a focus of study in the 1980s. This movement paired design choices with structured, formal scientific research. Rather...
In last week's post, we explored the overlap between architectural principles in the AIA's Framework for Design Excellence. Today, we will look at...
After thousands of years of medical care provided in homes and religious buildings, health care moved into the public sphere. Buildings were...
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...