Visits to a hospital by patients or their visitors are almost always a stressful experience, especially the first visit. This stress can rapidly escalate, if they cannot get to where they need to go quickly, be it to get treatment or to visit a loved one. The difficulty to find way can be compounded
Building on my previous article on Environment & Sustainability I deemed it fit to post a few thoughts on the use of green and brown roofs and their hugely popular positive contribution to the environment. The green and brown roofs consist of soil and vegetation and they can be anything from a short grassy patch to a
Are you a doctor looking for advice on how to design your private clinic? Or a decision maker looking forward to design a new or redesign an existing hospital or clinic? Or maybe you are putting together a brief for a new hospital. You can be a healthcare experienced architectural, engineering or medical equipment consultant
Designing an operating theatre outlines the intricacies of the hospital design process. An operating theatre suite consists of the Theatre, the Anaesthetic room, Scrub room, Clean Prep and the Dirty Utility (or just Utility) room. We will look at planning just the Operating Theatre itself in this hospital design guide article. A number of
When I was young I had to visit the hospital where my father was admitted after a horrific accident. While trying to save a child who suddenly ran across the road, he had his leg caught in the wheel of his motorcycle. Cut a long story short, my father had to have about 21 operations
Our last hospital design article on fire escapes for disabled, based on a client query has proved very popular with the hospitaldesigntips.com visitors. We received numerous enquiries and requests for further advice. I thought it would be beneficial to share one such request and our response to a medical general practitioner from India requesting: We are planning for
Of all the clinical areas in any hospital, X-Ray, CT, and Fluoroscopy need much more planning and co-ordination than any other thing imaginable. This is mostly due to the fact that the equipment used and its implications on the building structure and services is much more complex with the exception of the MRI. We will
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Guest Author: Wullie Scott All healthcare facilities as part of the hospital design process require some kind of Nurse Call System which includes patient-to-staff and staff-to-staff calls when the need arises. When the nurse call is initiated, it buzzes at the nearest staff base, where the staff responsible can find out from the nurse call
It feels great to be back onboard HospitalDesignTips.com after a while as we have been extremely busy with our assignments on greenfield healthcare projects and despite our best endeavours we had to keep all our energies focussed on our current clients and best protecting their interests. A big Welcome back to all our regular visitors
