Every time I visit a hospital for professional or personal reason, I cannot help observing areas where improvements could be suggested. Some of the easy improvement opportunities to spot are dirt and scratch marks on walls, doors, lifts interior finish, corners, and floors. Most of these marks representing wear & tear of wall finish result
When I was young I had to visit the hospital where my father was admitted after a horrific accident. While trying to save a child who suddenly ran across the road, he had his leg caught in the wheel of his motorcycle. Cut a long story short, my father had to have about 21 operations
This article picks up from my previous article on how Hospital design can improve as healing environments. I focus on the need for daylight and what design aspects one must keep in mind at the design stage. Much research exists to prove that access to daylight contributes to faster patient recovery and to staff’s welfare,
Our last hospital design article on fire escapes for disabled, based on a client query has proved very popular with the hospital-designs.com visitors. We received numerous enquiries and requests for further advice. I thought it would be beneficial to share one such request and our response to a medical general practitioner from India requesting: We are planning for
Of all the clinical areas in any hospital, X-Ray, CT, and Fluoroscopy need much more planning and co-ordination than any other thing imaginable. This is mostly due to the fact that the equipment used and its implications on the building structure and services is much more complex with the exception of the MRI. We will
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Guest Author: Wullie Scott All healthcare facilities as part of the hospital design process require some kind of Nurse Call System which includes patient-to-staff and staff-to-staff calls when the need arises. When the nurse call is initiated, it buzzes at the nearest staff base, where the staff responsible can find out from the nurse call
It feels great to be back onboard HospitalDesignTips.com after a while as we have been extremely busy with our assignments on greenfield healthcare projects and despite our best endeavours we had to keep all our energies focussed on our current clients and best protecting their interests. A big Welcome back to all our regular visitors
Planning Pathology labs including microbiology, biochemistry and haematology should be fairly simple and straight forward. But we know from experience that if careful thought is not given at the design and planning stage, the simplest of things can and most probably will go wrong. So what do we really need to watch out for? Although
Medical equipment planning and layout design are one of the trickiest parts within the hospital design process and as such demand a thorough consideration of all aspects. Each clinical space is woven around how clinicians interact with the equipment and the patients. It takes into account the universal principles of infection control, general hygiene and
