Advances: Patients and Families as Partners in Health Care Facility Design
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Patients and Families as Partners in Health Care Facility Design
Table of Contents
- Report Summarizes Research-Based Case for Single-Patient Rooms
- The Pebble Project: Building a Business Case for Improved Hospital Design
- Collaborative Design Planning for Adult Health Care Programs: The MCG Health System Experience
- Whose Right (or Who's Right) to Design?
- Collaborative Design Planning in Pediatric Hospitals
- Seeing Is Believing: The Power of Site Visits in NICU Design Planning
- Innovative Design Gains International Recognition-Rikshospitalet
- The Birthplace at GMH: Nurturing the Patient and Provider Families
- Culture Change: A Nursing Home Where Patients Come First
Two decades of research has shown that hospitals and health care facilities that support patient privacy, facilitate family presence and participation, enhance patient and family access to information, and support staff are associated with positive patient, family, and staff outcomes. More and more facilities are discovering that collaborating with patients, families, and staff across all phases of design planning maximizes their ability to create a building that best responds to the needs of those they serve and those who provide care. This issue presents the case for collaborative design planning and supportive design from the perspectives of researchers, administrators, staff, patients, and families at health care facilities around the world.