Facilities & Operations
Art for Health's Sake
An evidence-based approach
The human mind and body are so intrinsically linked that "feeling" better is a huge step towards "being" better. This makes the role of art very critical in today's healthcare.
Healthcare Facilities Design
A global perspective
The battle to deliver high-quality care at affordable costs will only be won through refinement of process flows and a thorough understanding of long-term operational costs as well as initial capital costs.
Lean Process Program Planning
Guidelines for optimum operations and design
Lessons learnt from the appropriate incorporation of “Lean” considerations during the functional and space programming phases and then the conceptual and preliminary design phases, can positively impact immediate, short-term and long-range operational expenses.
Generative Space
Creating sustainable improvements
The Leading by Design research project is working with 11 case studies in three countries to operationalise ‘generative space’ as a means to use the environment to make systemic and sustainable improvements in healthcare.
Healthcare Design
The need for consumer-driven research
The pivotal role of healthcare design in the improvement of healthcare delivery has become widely accepted under the rubric of evidence-based design. However, there is a need for consumer-driven, comprehensive programming methodology applicable to healthcare design projects in Asia and the United States.
Desperately Seeking Safety
Creating integrated surgical/imaging environments that do less harm
The need for healthcare facilities designed for safety and the convergence of surgery and imaging are resulting in new types of space where medical technology is complex and where safe environments are essential.
Patient Safety
The next level
There is growing acceptance of the newer methods in patient safety and a call to combine both retrospective and prospective methods in order to gain a complete picture of the patient safety challenge.
Hospital of Tomorrow
The design perspective
The speciality of the Hospital of Tomorrow will be a combination of features for the well-being of not only the patients and their relatives, but the doctors, nurses and all the staff of the hospital as well.
Infection Control
The role of nonwoven textiles
Using the right surgical barrier and protective gowns, masks, head and footwear are some of the key means to achieving optimal protection from infection.
Infection Control - The SARS epidemic:
Containment and Control
The SARS outbreak would not have been successfully controlled without the collaborative work with several partners - government authorities, hospital management, healthcare workers and the public.
Infection Control
The Mask Crusade
Breathing also creates a 'bellows effect' causing the mask to contact the nose and mouth.
Infection Control
Resurgence or Reaction?
Hospitals were advised not to take a quick-fix approach to the problem of reducing infections, but rather it must be a long-term commitment not simply the 'problem of the month'.
Infection Control
Contamination Containment
The risks of bio-contamination and the preventative role of the laundry process.
Waste
Attitudes and Actions
The handling of hospital solid waste may increase airborne bacteria if not handled properly and the transmission of viable organisms to other parts of hospital and community is possible.
Bridging the Gulf in Infection Control
A Memish explore some of the advances in infection control that are bringing Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries into line with the highest international standards
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