Integrating NICUs into hospitals
Blog on the Healthcare Design website looks at researching and benchmarking the integration of neonatal intensive care units into hospitals
A blog on the Healthcare Design website looks at researching and benchmarking the integration of neonatal intensive care units into hospitals. The research discussed looked at patient room layout and adjacencies, flow and efficiency of the space, use of salutogenic design principles, community integration and technology.
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January 6, 2015
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Architecture
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