Harriet Richardson Blakeman receives funding from AHRC for doctoral research. Outpatients at St James’ Hospital feel better even before they see the doctor – thanks to a new note in hospital design.

Freestanding pediatric facilities and children’s hospitals that specialize in treating patients ages zero through 18 have operational and physical characteristics that differ from those of adult ...

At Switzerland’s Centre for Design and Health in Nidau, doctors and architects role-play hospital scenarios using full-scale simulations - catching costly design mistakes and creating patient-focused ...

Illustration of the experiment how an existing hospital room was transformed into a 3D virtual environment and then redesigned based on the Evidence-Based Design principle. In an online study, virtual ...

University Distinguished Professor of Marketing, Mays Business School; Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Texas A&M University We spend much of our time in buildings, and they can ...

Amanda Noth-Matchett, chief nursing officer for the adult academic health center at IU Health, says room design was planned with the goal to “support patient care for the next 100 years.” (IBJ ...

Digital health and technology are crucial in ensuring a more climate-friendly hospital design. The healthcare industry faces numerous challenges due to the growing demand for quality healthcare ...

Little known fact: Florence Nightingale might have been the most famous clinician to notice and openly comment on the role of hospital design in patient care. In her now well-known writings on nursing ...

After struggling to respond to a crushing Covid caseload, many hospitals are remodeling so that when the next crisis comes, they’ll be better able to meet it. A new I.C.U. at Doylestown Hospital in ...

In February 2003, a 78-year-old Canadian woman returned home after a 10-day trip to China. In the days that followed, she spiked a fever, then developed muscle aches and a persistent cough. She ...