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Special Report: Patient Rooms of the Past, the Present and the Future
Healthcare Design Magazine recently published an article recapping how far we’ve come in improving the design to patients rooms and listing where we need to go in the future. Below is a recap of some of the top points from the article. To read it in its entirety, click here.
Photo Credit: Scott Wang Photography.
Stakes Are High For Patient Room Design: The patient room is home away from home and, increasingly, where all the action happens—providing countless reasons to makes sure the design is right. This in-depth look at the state of patient room design today is the first installment in Healthcare Design’s special report on the patient room.
Photo Credit: © Frank Oudeman.
Unit Design Is Secret To Successful Patient Room: The effectiveness of any patient room design requires an equally effective unit design that supports efficient, functional, and safe operations and care delivery. Designers weigh in on best practices for inpatient unit design in this installment of Healthcare Design’s special report on the patient room.
Rendering: Shanghai Baihui Visual Art Illustration Co.
Crystal Ball—Looking Into The Future Of Patient Room Design: See a sneak peek of patient room projects on design boards today and details on how healthcare designers are reimagining this all-important space, the third installment in Healthcare Design‘s special report on the patient room.
Photo Credit: © Frank Oudeman.
Calling For Backup In The Patient Room: Evidence-based design has shaped the modern patient room in a number of ways, but there are still plenty of places where designers would like to have more research available to support design decisions. Read how research might shape future designs in this installment of Healthcare Design‘s special report on the patient room.
Photo Credit: Tom Powel Imaging.
What’s Next For Patient Room Design?: NXT Health’s Patient Room 2020 prototype made waves through the healthcare design industry when launched last year. In this installment of Healthcare Design‘s special report on the patient room, NXT Health executive director Salley Whitman talks about the model and how the concepts proposed continue to evolve and push pat
Source: http://www.healthcaredesignmagazine.com/article/room-improvement-patient-room-special-report
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