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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...
Posts by Erica Mitchell:
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...
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....
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...