Facility design can support staff best practices when preparing for another possible infectious disease outbreak, according to an article on the Healthcare Design website
Facility design can support staff best practices when preparing for another possible infectious disease outbreak, according to an article on the Healthcare Design website. There are a number of guidelines that can be followed to create a permanent high-level isolation unit or a unit that can be flexed to isolate highly infectious cases based on the current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention information, the article said.
January 8, 2015
Topic Area: Architecture
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