Ever since the COVID pandemic, hospitals have become more adept at thinking outside the box, or rather, outside the patient room. For some hospitals,...
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Posts about Construction:
Hospitals,
Product Evaluation,
HAIs,
Policy,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Costs,
Construction,
Innovations,
Career,
Evidence-Based Design
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How To Make the Case for a Healthcare Innovation
Every successful organization, from a small grassroots group to a global corporation, has a way for ideas to percolate through the system and find...
Hospitals,
Product Evaluation,
Policy,
Interventions,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Costs,
Construction,
Innovations,
Evidence-Based Design
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How Do Hospitals Spend Money? An Introduction
Hospital finances are a complex process, involving all the parts of a service provider, a retail business, an investment venture, and a non-profit...
Infection Control,
Hospitals,
Product Evaluation,
Consumer,
Patient Safety,
Medicare/Medicaid,
Design,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Costs,
Architecture,
Construction,
Innovations
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How Can a Healthcare Investment Increase Market Share AND Reduce Cost of Care? Focus on Infection Prevention.
Large-scale healthcare projects, from new projects to renovations, face a challenging future. After the tedious process of securing permits and...
Infection Control,
Product Evaluation,
Cleaning Protocols,
Antimicrobials,
Interventions,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Construction
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Biocidal > Antimicrobial
We have often discussed the different terms used to describe products that clean the patient environment in this blog. Using the correct terms, and...
Who obsesses over the safety of a community's environment? Who knows all the building codes, chemical exposure limits, and fire retardant additives...
So much of the success of infection control and prevention teams is the establishment of routines that promote best practices: Easy-to-access hand...
Projects to improve the patient's environment are critical to optimizing patient outcomes. Getting rid of moisture-trapping materials, opening rooms...