Posts about Design:

Few architects have the vantage point brought by a career in healthcare spanning 4 decades. Professional leaders with this kind of experience, in...

Designing for healthcare environments is a delicate balancing act. Architects and designers must navigate a web of constraints, making trade-offs to...

COVID-19 and other infectious pathogens continue to make headlines, drawing our attention to the technologies being developed to fight these germs....

Healthcare interior design plays an important but often unacknowledged role in infection control and prevention, especially in hospitals where...

More than 800,000 Americans live with end-stage kidney disease, and over half of them depend on dialysis as a necessary and life-sustaining...

A critical department of any healthcare facility is the on-site laboratory. Clinical laboratories process the many samples needed to help doctors...

Ever since the COVID pandemic, hospitals have become more adept at thinking outside the box, or rather, outside the patient room. For some hospitals,...

In our previous posts about DALYs and QALYs, we have defined the terms and presented how the healthcare field calculates these two measures of...

Large-scale healthcare projects, from new projects to renovations, face a challenging future. After the tedious process of securing permits and...

Have you ever struggled with a gas nozzle that didn't fit, only to find it was for the wrong type of fuel? Or have you ever tried to add one last...

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...

Posts about Design:

Professional Profile: Sheila Cahnman, FAIA, FACHA, LEED AP, and Growing Innovation in Healthcare Design

Healthcare Design: Balancing Aesthetics, Functionality, and Infection Control

How does copper kill germs?

ID + ID: Interior Design and Infectious Diseases

Healthcare-Associated Infections and Hemodialysis

What Happens in a Hospital Laboratory?

Cross-Functional Hospital Rooms and Infection Control: New Ideas, New Challenges

DALYs and QALYs + HAIs: The Costly Connection

How Can a Healthcare Investment Increase Market Share AND Reduce Cost of Care? Focus on Infection Prevention.

Poka-Yoke: How To Error-Proof Infection Control

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

Anatomy of an Overbed Table