Amanda Noth-Matchett, chief nursing officer for the adult academic health center at IU Health, says room design was planned with the goal to “support patient care for the next 100 years.” (IBJ ...

Hospital Building Teams are giving increasing attention to patient safety, and with good reason: The Institute of Medicine reports that as many as 1 out of 27 patients admitted into a hospital is ...

GRAND FORKS – Throughout the years-long process of planning and designing Altru Health System’s new hospital, the design team regularly referred back to five guiding principles: community, world-class ...

Illustration of the experiment how an existing hospital room was transformed into a 3D virtual environment and then redesigned based on the Evidence-Based Design principle. In an online study, virtual ...

In an acute care hospital, the intensive care unit staff must effectively use specialized equipment, while making split-second decisions pertaining to the care of a large number of medically fragile ...

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Whether by building new facilities or updating older rooms, health systems are transforming their physical spaces to improve care coordination.

As construction continues on the sparkling new $2.3 billion IU Health hospital downtown, a unit in the old IU Health Methodist across the street offers a glimpse of the future. The space features mock ...