Who obsesses over the safety of a community's environment? Who knows all the building codes, chemical exposure limits, and fire retardant additives...
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So much of the success of infection control and prevention teams is the establishment of routines that promote best practices: Easy-to-access hand...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a report addressing the impact COVID-19 has had on antimicrobial resistance....
In a previous posts, we explored the idea of evidence-based design, the place where science and aesthetics join forces to help patients and...
Overbed tables are essential in patient rooms. They serve as a surface for food trays, and can hold personal items such as phones, computers, or...
Among the many lessons we all learned from the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was that our nation's long-term care facilities struggle to protect...
Motivated by reason, civil duty, and patriotism, representatives from the Colonies gathered in Philadelphia to put their names on an historic...
Our efforts to reduce hospital acquired infections (HAIs) may have hit a challenging conundrum. On the one hand, we know that handwashing is...
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...
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...
After thousands of years of medical care provided in homes and religious buildings, health care moved into the public sphere. Buildings were...