HEALING GARDENS
Do Healing Gardens Really Heal?
And other insights about the power of hospital design
SOURCE: http://www.ssoe.com/news
“Evidence-based design” of hospitals has been credited with laudable improvements in patient care: faster recovery, reduced medication errors, improved staff safety and lower stress levels for everyone. The proponents of this design approach aren’t radicals. They are architects whose design reflects scientific research that proves certain environmental characteristics can create impressive results.
In the last decade, leading researchers proposed the idea that hospital design decisions should be based on documented results. From that point forward, rather than make assumptions about how to design a better functioning hospital, the profession took the position, “We need to prove it.”
Most of us have first-hand knowledge of the annoying aspects of hospitals—the disruptive noises, harsh lighting, stark décor, uncomfortable furniture, lack of privacy and more. And the staff can cite many design features that make it difficult to deliver the best medical treatment. Thanks to the ongoing compilation and quantification of hundreds of studies on the affects of certain environmental factors, architects know much more about how to improve outcomes.
Let’s take a tour of a model evidenced-based designed hospital to understand the environmental changes it incorporates.
For the full article: http://www.ssoe.com/news/article10.aspx
© 1948-2009 SSOE Group. All Rights Reserved.
Do Healing Gardens Really Heal?
And other insights about the power of hospital design
SOURCE: http://www.ssoe.com/news
“Evidence-based design” of hospitals has been credited with laudable improvements in patient care: faster recovery, reduced medication errors, improved staff safety and lower stress levels for everyone. The proponents of this design approach aren’t radicals. They are architects whose design reflects scientific research that proves certain environmental characteristics can create impressive results.
In the last decade, leading researchers proposed the idea that hospital design decisions should be based on documented results. From that point forward, rather than make assumptions about how to design a better functioning hospital, the profession took the position, “We need to prove it.”
Most of us have first-hand knowledge of the annoying aspects of hospitals—the disruptive noises, harsh lighting, stark décor, uncomfortable furniture, lack of privacy and more. And the staff can cite many design features that make it difficult to deliver the best medical treatment. Thanks to the ongoing compilation and quantification of hundreds of studies on the affects of certain environmental factors, architects know much more about how to improve outcomes.
Let’s take a tour of a model evidenced-based designed hospital to understand the environmental changes it incorporates.
For the full article: http://www.ssoe.com/news/article10.aspx
© 1948-2009 SSOE Group. All Rights Reserved.
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