Following evidence of reduced infection rates, single-person rooms are gaining popularity. Rob Wilson investigates what this means for hospital design ...

Access to a private room is the design intervention ... patient falls. When a hospital in Indianapolis redesigned a coronary critical-care unit to have larger single patient rooms, the number ...

Certain hospital room features ... Mead, Study Coauthor, Health And Design Scholar, University of Michigan The analysis for this single-site study involved 3,964 patients who underwent 13 high ...

Because of this shortage, hospital systems are using design as one of several tools ... beds or intensive care beds. In addition, single rooms or entire units are being designed to be isolation ...

Perhaps the most critical element of a hospital's design involves the inside ... we have double occupancy. So this room, all of our inpatient rooms, will be single-occupancy. So we will only have one ...

Australia's New South Wales (NSW) Government has unveiled a prototype inpatient room as part of the Cowra Hospital Redevelopment. The prototype allows staff to engage with the planned design ...

In an online study, virtual hospital rooms designed according to the principles of evidence-based design or the principles of Feng Shui were associated with greater potential benefit for viewers ...

For hospital patients, the privilege of privacy used to be reserved for those willing and able to pay hundreds of dollars a night for single rooms. That’s changing, as hospitals on Long Island ...

SINGAPORE - Mount Elizabeth Hospital, a private healthcare facility that opened in Orchard in 1979, will undergo its first major refurbishment as well as add 50 per cent more single rooms to meet ...