Interior Design

3 Tips for Designing Welcoming Healthcare Spaces

Healthcare design contributes to patient comfort and safety, as well as staff morale and productivity

9/24/2021

How Do Light Levels Affect Patient Health and Recovery?

Hospitalized patients often suffer from sleep deprivation due to environmental noise and interruptions from staff

9/21/2021

Hospital Design with Patient Sleep in Mind

Patient-care areas use noise-reducing materials, such as ceiling tiles that help with sound absorption

8/17/2021

Heale Medical Opens New Facility in Virginia

1,684-square-foot facility was designed by architecture firm //3877 with patient comfort in mind

8/9/2021

Getting Creative with Hospital Design

Hospitals seek design strategies that promote wellbeing of providers and patients

7/27/2021

How the Pandemic Influenced Healthcare Design

Learn how healthcare design is changing to improve better patient experience

7/14/2021

Lighting That Aims To Improve Human Health

Luminaire level lighting controls technology has potential to revolutionize lighting in healthcare facilities

7/13/2021

Expansion Elevates the Patient and Visitor Experience

See how Jefferson Health uses natural light, inviting spaces and a green roof in its design

7/9/2021

Hospital Design With Patients in Mind

Creating hospital room requires buy-in from team of patients, their advocates, providers, and architects

7/6/2021

New Hospital To Incorporate Lessons from COVID-19

Some of hospital’s 700 private rooms will be able to quickly convert to intensive care rooms

6/30/2021

Hospital Expansion Spotlights Flexible Spaces

Unit is designed with private universal rooms to flex between increasing demand for intensive care and step-down beds

6/25/2021

New Hospital’s Design Process Embraces Real Life

Architects, nurses and physicians collaborate to refine design of critical rooms at Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital

6/16/2021

Hospital Upgrades Reflect Impact of COVID-19

Facility to offer more single-occupancy rooms to decrease potential for spread of disease

6/11/2021

COVID-19 Fallout: Facilities That Can Flex

Planning for adaptability is one solution to future emergency situations

6/9/2021

Flexible Design for Hospitals of the Future — Today

Challenges from COVID-19 provide roadmap to help hospitals prepare for when — not if — next pandemic occurs

6/8/2021

Location, Location, Location: The Impact on Patient Care

Researchers used tracking chips to investigate the way facility layout affects patient care

6/8/2021

Infection Control and Interior Design: Making a Connection

Rethinking facility design to limit transmission of infections

6/7/2021

Case Study: Updated Hospital for Children Targets Comfort, Functionality

Hospital’s hematology and oncology unit has new look and benefit of architecture and engineering updates

5/28/2021

Facility Designs Respond to Changing Times

Pandemic and other changes have prompted new approaches to design

5/27/2021

Future Facilities: Focus on Flexibility

Pandemic has driven home how necessary it is for facilities to be flexible

5/21/2021

Resilient Healthcare Facilities in a Post-COVID World

Core design strategies to help hospitals provide flexible, easily adaptable care centers

5/19/2021

Behavioral Health and Memory Care Design Best Practices

When considering varying patient populations, designing for behavioral health creates challenges and opportunities

5/18/2021

White Paper Explores Pandemic’s Impact on Future Facilities

Group looked at requirements and recommendations on emergency preparedness and offers new standard

5/12/2021

Seeking Efficiency, Hospitals Rethink Operating Rooms

Even older hospitals with limited budgets are getting creative, since surgeries are important revenue sources

5/10/2021

Crisitunity: Design Opportunities from COVID-19 Crisis

Problems have made it essential to reevaluate and reimagine clinical environments

5/10/2021

New Tools Support Design for Behavioral Health

Resources connect built environment to better health outcomes and reduced cost of care

5/6/2021

Case Study: Nature Inspires Healing from Outside In

Facility provides mental health services in underserved region of North Carolina

5/6/2021

4 Lighting Examples That Improve Visitor Experience

See how the Center for Health & Wellbeing uses lighting to create inviting and healthy spaces.

5/6/2021

4 MEP Design Considerations To Improve Patient Experience

Focusing on mechanical, electrical and plumbing features at cancer centers can make treatment sessions more comfortable for patients

5/4/2021

Case Study: Simulating Natural Light in Neonatal Wards

Lighting system helps premature children adapt to light

5/3/2021

COVID-19 Lesson: Adaptable Hospital Design

Designers working with facilities managers to create more adaptable spaces

4/30/2021

Protecting Healthcare Workers Through Facility Design

Updated resource emphasizes combating violence in healthcare using the built environment

4/29/2021

Facility Design Beyond COVID-19

Most organizations are likely to convert temporary measures into permanent policies

4/27/2021

Case Study: Hospital Design Centers on Patient Healing

Creating uplifting atmosphere was central to inpatient pavilion at Vassar Brothers Medical Center

4/21/2021

Renovated Floor Enhances Hospital’s Flexibility

19,900-square-foot project provides additional bed capacity and swing space for entire building

4/15/2021

COVID-19 and Hospitals of the Future

Pandemic has accelerated considerations of the way medical facilities are built and designed

4/14/2021

Facility Updates Interior To Address Patient, Family Needs

Switch in furnishings and layouts increased the facility’s capacity and patient privacy

4/14/2021

Rethinking Design for Looming Behavioral Health Pandemic

Systems should plan now to integrate best practices in design so physical spaces can support patients

4/12/2021

Hospital Design Emphasizes Nontraditional Approach

Services for behavioral and mental health treatment require collaboration to meet unique design considerations

4/8/2021

New Hospital Gives a Nod to Hospitality

Symbiotic relationship seeks to create steady ﬂow of travelers for hotel and more welcoming, hospitality-inspired setting

4/7/2021

Carbon Footprint and the Role of Interiors

Impact of interiors might be responsible for emissions akin to those from building structures and envelopes

4/6/2021

Health System Prepares for Opening of New Facility

New hospital will be licensed for 320 adult beds, 84 pediatric beds and 44 maternity beds

3/31/2021

Venues Available for Vaccination Programs

Parking, wayfinding and accessibility are challenges for onsite hospital programs

3/25/2021

Adapting Florence Nightingale to COVID-19 Era

Nightingale revolutionized hospital design by adding large windows to allow cross-ventilation and abundant natural light

3/24/2021

Medical Office Buildings Connects Patients to Nature

Design incorporates green moss wall that cleanses VOCs from air and reduces noise

3/11/2021

Hospital Aims for Inclusive Design

Design prioritizes a lack of visual clutter, carefully thought-out travel paths, scale and lighting controls

3/10/2021

Hospital Design with Workplace Violence in Mind

Design guidelines place considerable attention on updated guidance to help combat violence

3/5/2021

Big Picture: How COVID-19 Is Changing Facility Design

Pandemic has accelerated dramatic reforms in how hospitals look, feel and function

3/4/2021

Hospitals: The Sustainability-Design-Energy Connection

An energy budget sets an energy target at the beginning of a design and construction project

3/2/2021

How Hospital Design Can Save Lives

For some patients, time is of the essence and can’t be wasted navigating layout

2/25/2021

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