High Performance Workplace with Improved Visibility A key feature of open core layouts is that providers can always see the entire wing. With any activity readily visible, teams can respond more ...

In the United States, one third of babies are born by cesarean delivery; but up to 45% of these surgeries may not medically indicated. Poor hospital design may be partly to blame.

Shah and his team at Ariadne Labs recently published an assessment of 12 childbirth facilities around the U.S. that looked at how differences in hospital design and layout may affect C-section rates.

This method facilitates the optimisation of hospital layouts by addressing issues such as overcrowding, wayfinding and infection control, thereby directly linking design choices to patient care ...

Confusing layouts and signage add to patients' anxiety at a time when many are feeling ill and are coming to the hospital to undergo tests and procedures.

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Scott Broome, CEO of Roper St. Francis' Berkeley hospital, detailed some of the design nuances he hopes will improve workflow and patient happiness.

In the March 1942 issue of the journal Modern Hospital, Charles F. Neergaard, a prominent New York City hospital design consultant, published a layout for a hospital inpatient department that was ...