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 ...

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 ...

I work in a state-of-the-art facility designed with a focus on the patient experience. Each patient room is bound by a large near-floor-to-ceiling window, inviting in the outside world and the urban ...

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GRAND FORKS – Throughout the years-long process of planning and designing Altru Health System’s new hospital, the design team regularly referred back to five guiding principles: community, world-class ...

Planning for the renovation and modernization of the emergency department at Carroll Hospital in Westminster received a bit of help from the Carroll County Department of Fire and Emergency Medical ...

A new study has directly linked operating room design to the length of surgeries, with implications both for patient health and hospitals' bottom lines. Xiaobo Quan is proud that his study is the ...

The physical design of a hospital’s birthing unit may affect its Cesarean section rate, according to a new paper published by Ariadne Labs and MASS Design Group. Based on previous research conducted ...

Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine is future-proofing its upcoming $2.2 billion hospital by testing out smart rooms at its current campus. The health system launched a 17-bed “innovation design unit” ...

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 ...

On a special episode (first released on July 17, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Hospitals are typically stressful places. Could bringing nature inside help patients heal faster? Public health expert Dr ...