Noise is not just a challenge for patients on nursing units, it also threatens the ability of staff to communicate well and do their work in a calm, efficient manner with focus, energy and compassion.
In this webinar, Sarah Markovitz will outline the prevailing healthcare noise challenge—the conflict of the need to bring people together who need frequent contact, and the resulting distracting noise. She will then outline the potential negative impacts of noise on staff performance, satisfaction, and well-being and offer insights and strategies for how to mitigate those negative impacts. Finally, she’ll share innovative ideas for restorative, high-performing inpatient unit workspace design that benefits both patients and staff.
Experts
Sarah Markovitz is the healthcare design practice leader in NBBJ’s Boston studio. Her career has been focused on assisting academic medical centers in development of high-performing, innovative solutions to their strategic, operational and design challenges, through diligent research and application of healthcare design performance measures. Sarah’s recent projects include the Lunder Building at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Brigham and Women’s Hale Building for Transformative Medicine and NYU Langone Medical Center’s Kimmel Building. She believes that successful outcomes in healthcare design derive from a collaborative and interactive relationship of the hospital clinicians and staff and the design team.