A single-patient intensive care unit (ICU) room design reduces the risks of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), cutting care costs enough to more than cover the construction expense, according to ...

In a major change to hospital design, health chiefs are debating whether to house people exclusively in single rooms at 48 new hospital set to built across the UK by 2030.

The analysis for this single-site study involved 3,964 patients who underwent 13 high-risk surgical procedures (including colectomy, pancreatectomy, and kidney transplant) at the University of ...

Patients at a Scottish hospital have been forced to share single rooms, prompting a health watchdog to issue a warning over safety and privacy. With the NHS battling an overcrowding crisis ...

Norfolk's new hospital will have single rooms for patients instead of wards - if it gets the go-ahead. Leaders of the new hospitals programme say the NHS needs to move away from multi-bed wards ...

Patient rooms. The new hospital has single-patient rooms rather than traditional shared spaces as a way to enhance privacy, safety and comfort.

Should single rooms be the norm in hospitals? Multi-patient rooms are the status quo for New Zealand hospitals, with up to five people staying in each room. New research argues that this breaches ...

Good Samaritan University Hospital in West Islip unveiled its new mother-baby unit on Tuesday. The unit, which has undergone an $8.5 million renovation, converts all rooms to single-patient rooms ...

The 344-bed Dumfries hospital, which cost £212m and opened in 2017, is made up entirely of single rooms. NHS bosses said at the time that they would reduce cross-infection and protect patients ...