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Professional Profile: Megan Kalina, EDAC, CID, LEED AP

Anatomy of an Overbed Table

CBIC Introduces New IP Certification for Long-Term Facilities

4 for the 4th: Four Doctors Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

5 Design Updates to Make Sinks Safer

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...

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....

Health.Care | An Educational Blog

Professional Profile: Megan Kalina, EDAC, CID, LEED AP

Anatomy of an Overbed Table

CBIC Introduces New IP Certification for Long-Term Facilities

4 for the 4th: Four Doctors Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

5 Design Updates to Make Sinks Safer

Professional Profile: Megan Kalina, EDAC, CID, LEED AP

Anatomy of an Overbed Table

CBIC Introduces New IP Certification for Long-Term Facilities

4 for the 4th: Four Doctors Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

5 Design Updates to Make Sinks Safer

What is "Easy to Clean"?

Healthcare Buildings that Do No Harm

Hospitals and Evidence-Based Design Part 3: Today's New Hospitals

Hospitals and Evidence-Based Design Part 2: The Revolutionary 100 Years

Hospitals and Evidence-Based Design Part 1: Early History

7 Ways ASHE's new ICRA 2.0 Takes Out the Guesswork

The Golden Age of Microbiology, Part 3