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Using design details to improve today's health care-an inspiring, comprehensive guide
As Cynthia Leibrock writes in the Preface, "The power of a healing environment comes from the little things, the design details that empower patients to take responsibility for their own health." In Design Details for Health, she offers specific design details that can improve patient outcomes by returning authority to the patient, along with fascinating case studies and research demonstrating the positive role design details can play in reducing healthcare costs. Practical and inspiring, this innovative book is essential reading for architects, interior designers, facility managers, and healthcare professionals.
Attention to detail is the cornerstone of success in virtually every enterprise. This is especially true in the field of healthcare design, where design details can have a profound impact on the quality and efficacy of care.
In Design Details for Health, Cynthia Leibrock gives designers and other industry professionals specific examples showing how design details can offer patients greater comfort and independencewhile also giving healthcare facilities a competitive edge-saving staff time, cutting overhead costs, and reducing liability.
With the help of nearly 200 images, many in full color, she offers flexible, innovative design solutions in key areas such as lighting, acoustics, color, furnishings, and finishes. From acute carehospitals to specialized ambulatory care and home treatment settings, she addresses a variety of healthcare environments and includes inspiring case studies that reveal how effective design details work in the real world.
Throughout the book, Cynthia Leibrock presents findings from the cutting edge of design research-including results published here for the first time-reflecting the experience and expertise of hundreds of healthcare designers and architects in the United States and abroad. Covering topics ranging from acoustics to lighting, this valuable data includes citations for further reference.
When design empowers rather than disables, everybody wins. Sensitive to the needs of both patients and the providers that serve them, Design Details for Health is essential reading for today's architects, interior designers, facility managers, and healthcare professionals involved in commercial and residential healthcare facilities.
". . . this book is a reference standard with timeless value." -Wayne Ruga, Founder, The National Symposium on Healthcare Design
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Excellent hands-on resource for Interior Designers.......2000-08-14
I am a professional Health Care interior designer who is always looking for resources to enhance my knowledge base for creating healing enviornments in the health care market. A few years ago I attended, along with about 300 other designers, a presentation by a nationally known health care designer. At the end of the 1.5 hr. lecture, there were six of us left. The focus of the talk was entirely philosophical: there were no gems of knowledge or tools we could take back to our design practices to make our projects better. Ms. Leibrock certainly doesn't have to worry about anyone leaving her presentation. The book has been delegated to my reference shelf and I am sure will become dog-earred.
The specific types of healing environments included in the book range from birthing centers to long-term care facilities and all that is in-between. The philosophical issues are presented and then followed by research findings and case studies which support those concepts. Then the GEMS! Lists and lists and lists of hands-on guidelines which are distilled from the vast experience and research of the author.
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Planning to build? Part 1 of this step-by-step guide will help you locate and plan your veterinary facility, with information on demographics, site considerations, and budget concerns. Part 2 discusses floor plan design, including traffic flow and the three "zones" in a modular floor plan. The appendices feature actual floor plans for different types of veterinary hospitals.
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An authoritative look into the future of medical technology and facility design. A state-of-the-art blueprint for architects, planners, and hospital administrators, this comprehensive book provides innovative ideas and practical guidelines for planning and designing facilities for the rapidly changing healthcare field. It explores current and emerging trends in design for medical treatment, technology, and delivery, and presents a rich cross section of examples and case studies from around the country. 270 color illustrations.
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Here's the essential information you need to initiate designs for acute care hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, and specialty centers.
- Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details.
- Combines an overview of the needs and concerns of healthcare industry clients with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion.
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Hospital Interior Architecture
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Designing and building hospitals is an extraordinarily complicated and expensive task, which requires technical skill and design innovation. Hospital Builders brings together a selection of key projects from around the world to provide the ideal reference for anyone working in this area. Each of the projects has been specifically chosen for their blend of innovation and practicality and are extensively illustrated with images, photographs, plans and explanatory text.
- Anthony Monk is a co-founder of HLM Architects - Britain's premier specialists in health care design.
- Comprehensive study of a wide variety of styles of hospital buildings.
- Beautifully and extensively illustrated throughout.
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Innovations in Hospice Architecture
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Societies around the globe are aging at an unprecedented rate. This trend is particularly pronounced in Japan, Russia, Western Europe, and in the United States. Palliative care consists of care provided to persons who are in the final stages of a terminal illness. Hospice care, however, is administered to persons of all ages.
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Healing the Hospital Environment: Design, Maintenance and Management of Healthcare Premises
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Healing the Hospital Environment provides practical solutions and guidance for healthcare facility administrators and estates managers concerned with the implementation of a complete interior and exterior refurbishment policy and for commissioning new buildings.
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In this fascinating and richly illustrated book, John Henderson takes us into the Renaissance hospitals of Florence, recreating the enormous barn-like wards and exploring the lives of those who received and those who administered treatment there. Drawing on an exceptional range of visual and documentary evidence, Henderson overturns the popular view of the pre-industrial hospital as a hellish destination for the dying poor. To the contrary, hospitals of the era developed specialized, professional care; became important centers of artistic patronage; and served a large patient population, only ten percent of whom died during their stay. The book explores the civic role of Renaissance hospitals, their beautiful architecture and interior design, and their methods of medical treatment that continue to influence healthcare practices today.
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The Renaissance Hospital--TMI? (too much information).......2007-01-11
Anyone buying this book who expects a compelling fast read will be dissappointed. This is a scholarly text with great detail and of interest to an individual who wishes factual background material about the subject. This is not a book for someone who expects a Ross King historical novel! I, as a physician and art historian, found the information interesting, but certainly not something to read for pure pleasure.
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Healthcare Spaces No. 3 showcases impressive modernistic work by some of the leading architects and interior designers serving the nation's health care institutions. Over 40 design firms present their 150+ trendsetting projects with over 800 color images in this 360-page, four color book. Health care administrators, physicians, medical planners, their architects and interior designers will find this an superior way to assess how public and private institutions are coping with the opportunities and challenges of managed care, advances in medical science and technology, aging populations and the drive towards patient-focused care.
This profound change in the delivery of health care is revealed in projects ranging from neighborhood clinics, surgery centers and medical offices to replacement hospitals and vast medical campuses. Showcased are not only the advances in technology but also how the health care insitutions are morphing into more spa-like phisiques. This volume reveals the most current examples reflecting this trend. Organized alphabetically by design firm, Healthcare Spaces No. 3 is user friendly, with each project indexed for easy reference. In this book, health care professionals as well as architects and interior designers serving public and private health care institutions will find exciting new approaches to their work.
360 pages 800 color images 9"x12" / hardbound
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