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Baylor Emergency Department

Baylor Emergency Department


Providing state-of-the-art services
The Baylor University Healthcare System is a Christian ministry of healing that serves patients by providing exemplary healthcare education research and community service It was founded on the principle of improving community health by addressing identified needs The Baylor University Medical Center...
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The Hospital of the Future Isnt...


Role of architects
No administrator patient or doctor today would recognise the hospital of the future It isnt a healthcare facility as we know it As a result of changes in technology and the general delivery system consolidation amalgamation and an everchanging regulatory environment the hospital of the future will n...
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Sustainable Hospital Design


Beyond the numbers
Its getting harder to read a newspaper or watch the television without seeing news about the impact of global warming While the debate about cause and effect is certain to continue it is clear to a growing number of people that we must reduce the consumption of natural resources and the emissions of...
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Generative Space


Creating sustainable improvements
The CARITAS Project was launched in by Dr Wayne Ruga who had also founded the annual Symposium on Healthcare Design and The Center for Health Design The purpose of The CARITAS Project is to pioneer the development of the next generation of resources to systemically and sustainably improve health an...
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Lean Process Program Planning


Guidelines for optimum operations and design
Over the past several decades healthcare planning and design have developed into a multispeciality arena beyond most of any other building type This has been mandated as a result of the increasing complexity of factors like intertwining codes regulations technologies reimbursement and insurance impa...
Healthcare Facilities Design

Healthcare Facilities Design


A global perspective
Today we are seeing an unprecedented global boom in healthcare facilities development fuelled by a wide variety of economic and social factors The Private Finance Initiative that is spawning significant new development in the UK The creation of free zones giving rise to entire healthcare cit...
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Art for Health's Sake


An evidence-based approach
They say a picture is worth a thousand words In a museum we can stand and ponder on what these thousand words may be We can look at a picture wonder and let our thoughts wander But what about art in a hospital In a hospital patients visitors and staff are all under constant pressure and in a s...
Infection Control

Infection Control


Bridging the Gulf in Infection Control
Key Points Comprehensive strategies have been implemented in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf region for the detection and prevention of infectious disease A training initiative is underway to increase the number of infection control professionals in the region
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Major Issues and Trends Impacting Health and Hospital Planning, Design, Construction, Operation and Maintenance


Basic questions such as environmental physical mental and spiritual health and wellbeing are often overlooked in the rush to design health and hospital facilities Access If the public cannot reach a healthcare facility because of its location or lack of infrastructure it might as well not exis...
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Lean Rapid Prototyping


Improving healthcare design
There is a new Leaninspired trend in healthcare planning in which planners design professionals and care providers can be seen moving cardboard walls around in large warehousetype spaces to simulate highintensity healthcare areas such as the emergency department surgical suite oran imaging center Th...
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