Over 51 million Americans – more than one in five adults – live with a mental illness. Given the events of the last year, that number is only expected to rise, increasing the demands on behavioral health facilities exactly when they are needed most. Read More …
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Designing for Longevity: Creating Affordable Redundancy, Renewability for Hospital MEP Systems
4 Strategies for Equipment Redundancy
The ability to renew or replace aging mechanical equipment in hospitals is a common but complex challenge. All too frequently, Read More …
Comment Period Extended for COVID-19 Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that it will publish a notice in the Federal Register to extend the comment period for the COVID-19 healthcare Read More …
4 Trends to Enhance Interactions between Patients, Care Providers
Real-time locating systems drive design of patient-centered environments
Operational efficiency has been a mantra throughout the healthcare delivery environment for years. If you’re a hospital or clinic manager, you’ve been under significant pressure to cut costs and reduce errors while providing Read More …
Healthcare Facilities Designed, Built to Meet Patient Care in New + Transformative Ways
As the COVID-19 pandemic quickly spread across Minnesota and its neighboring states early last year, several healthcare systems recognized the need to make structural facility changes to advance patient care in new and transformative ways. Read More …
Scenario Planning for Resilient Facilities: Preparing for Normal, Extreme Circumstances
The minute health systems started shutting down services at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, reality hit that something was broken. It was more than the supply chain, which buckled under a 17-fold increase in demand for such things as facemasks and gowns at a time when organizations only kept Read More …
