The evidence-based design buzz is growing throughout the media. Read up on what people are saying about The Center for Health Design's work, quotes from Center board members/spokespeople, the Pebble Project research initiative, and more. Pebble Partners in the News
Buildings Magazine June 2010
"Health Care Reform for Health Care Design," by Sari Gravin.
Evidence-based design will continue to play a prominent role in the creation of health care facilities - particularly in times of economic uncertainty. An interview with CHD Board Member, Rosalyn Cama.
Journal of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin May/June 2010
"Creating Safer and More Efficient Pharmacies through Evidence-Based Design," by CHD Research Associates Ellen Taylor, AIA, MBA, EDAC and Amy Keller, MArch, EDAC
DOTmed Business News May 2010
"Low Spends Meet Design Trends," reported by A.F. Hutchinson. Sustainability initiatives, green building and evidence-based design are changing the landscape of hospital construction even as the recession takes its toll.
Marketplace, American Public Media March 2010
"Hospital design promotes better healing," reported by Caitlan Carroll. People go to the doctor to get better, but sometimes patients get new infections when they step inside a hospital. One hospital is trying to improve health by design.
Times Colonist January 2010
"Experts tout Jubilee tower as world-leading facility. U.S. health-design leaders call new building 'outstanding facility'," reported by Richard Watts.
Health Technology Trends Newsletter December 2009
"Is there evidence to support evidence-based hospital design?" published by ECRI Institute.
Journal of Patient Safety December 2009
"The Human Factors of Home Health Care: A Conceptual Model for Examining Safety and Quality Concerns", by Kerm Henriksen, PhD, Anjali Joseph, PhD, and Teresa Zayas-Caban, PhD.
New York Times December 2009
"A Breath of Fresh Air for Health Care," reported by Allison Arieff.
Fast Company October 2009
"Designers, Take a Look at Evidence-Based Design for Health Care," reported by Rob Tannen.
KCRW 89.9 FM October 20, 2009
"Healing by Design," interview with CHD's Ellen Taylor.
HKS, Inc September 2009
"Evidence Based Design during Financial Turmoil," written by Debajyoti Pati, PhD, FIIA, LEED, AP.
Hospital Healthcare July 2009
"Optimised hospital renovation and construction: avoiding the pitfalls," reported by Robert Feldbauer.
Hospital Healthcare July 2009
"Applying a green and patient-friendly design to hospitals," reported by Rosemary Glanville.
Health Facilities Management July 2009
"CHD rolls out evidence-based design accreditation and certification." Richard Hall AIA, ACHA, EDAC, principal-in-charge and director of health care design services for Harley Ellis Devereaux, an EDAC champion firm, introduces and explains the benefits of the EDAC program.
ARCHITECT Magazine July 2009
"Is EDAC The Next Leed? A new accreditation in evidence-based design seeks to clarify and legitimize the misunderstood term," by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson.
MSN Health & Fitness July 2009
"Healing Environments. How simple design elements can promote recovery," reported by Korey Capozza, medically reviewed by Pat F. Bass III, MD, MS, MPH.
The New York Times May 2009
"Health Outcomes Driving New Hospital Design". The benefits of single room emerged through evidence based hospital design, a new field that guides health care construction.
Explore November/December 2008
"Optimal Healing Environments: Building Healing Spaces." Newly constructed Oregon hospital has implemented the elements of what is evidenced to create a healing space. See how the built environment impacts healing.
Red Orbit September 2008
"Creating the Ultimate Healing Environment." In early 2004, OhioHealth, began planning a new hospital that would service the needs of a growing community in central Ohio, integrating Evidence-Based Design, IT and Patient Safety.
Mount Vernon Gazette September 2008
"Chamber Members Glimpse Hospital Of The Future," reported by Chuck Hagee. The new DeWitt Army Community Hospital now under construction at Fort Belvoir from the hospital's new Commander, Col. Charles Callahan.
Northeast Medical Industry and Hospital News September 2008
"Cleveland Clinic's New Look More Than Just A Pretty Face," After 40 months of construction, the Cleveland Clinic is ready to celebrate the opening of two buildings characterized as monuments to 21st-century thinking in health-care delivery.
Dallas Morning News August 2008
"Art and Color are part of hospitals healing plan." Featuring JPS Patient Care Pavillion in Fort Worth, TX: hospital artwork is more than mere eye candy.
Daily Journal of Commerce August 2008
"Symposium looks into healthy designs," Evidence-based design uses research to show that better designed facilities greatly benefit patients.
The Wall Street Journal August 2008
"A treatment room with a view," reported by Laura Landro, features institutions making patient areas more appealing that can ease patients' stress, fears, and perhaps influence a patient's outcome for the better.
Hospital and Health Networks July 2008
"A New Model for Hospital Design Rises in an Ohio Cornfield," features Pebble Partner, Dublin Methodist, a full service hospital that opened in January by OhioHealth.
Los Angeles Times July 2008
"In California Hospitals, a design evolution for patients," features Kaiser Permanente among the hospitals using evidence based design and venitilation to reduce infection risk.
Miller-McCune July 2008
"A New Therapy for America's Aging Hospitals," reported by Barbara Hesselgrave. What can good hospital designs achieve? How about healthier patients?
Imaging Economics March 2008
"Exploring the 3D World," by Marianne Matthews. Palomar West-a virtual hospital simulating the real-world Palomar West Medical Campus due to open 2011 in San Diego, CA.
Minnesota Medicine March 2008
"Therapeutic Responses to Natural Environments, Using Gardens to Improve Health Care," by Stephen Mitrione. Article reviews how gardens are experiencing a renaissance in health care settings, studies have shown the connection between nature and improved healing.
Hospital and Health Networks March 2008
"Healthy Environment, Healthy Patient," by Sita Ananth, M.H.A. Integrative health and “green” medicine go hand in hand.
Healthexecutive January 2008
"PeaceHealth Transformers," features PeaceHealth Oregon is constructing a new medical center that is going to be a catalyst in the transformation in the delivery of care.
Advance for Respitory Care & Sleep Medicine June 2007
"ZZZs and Healing," features how transforming hospitals environments show patient improvements.
American Hospital Association May 2007
"How Boomers Will Change Healthcare" Meeting future health care challenges will require more resources, new approaches to care delivery and a greater focus on wellness and prevention.
Business Week Online March 2007
"Steelcase's Medical Breakthrough,"by Reena Jana. The Center is mentioned in an article about products and design that help improve the patient's experience.
Nurse Week Magazine March 12, 2007
"Mountain West Nurse Designers Create Environments of Care for Patients and Staff," by Melissa Gaskill.
HEALTHCARE DESIGN Magazine March 2007
"The Heart of Healing," Affiliate Partner Spellman Brady & Company is featured in an article that describes how artwork is used to promte health and well-being based on the facility's vision to provide a healting environment for patients, families, and staff.
HEALTHCARE DESIGN Magazine March 2007
"Are Those Room Finishes and Cleaners Safe?" Article features infections in the healthcare environments. By CHD CHER Committee members Roger Leib, AIA, ACHA and Jane Rohde, AIA, ACHA, FIIDA, AAHID.
Hospital And Health Networks January 2007
"With Mayo. In the deli that is healthcare, we all deserve the special," CHD's former Board Member Ian Morrison discusses The Mayo Clinic and what sets it apart from other healthcare facilities.
CHD Research Review 2007
"The architecture of safety: hospital design", by Anjali Joseph and Mahbub Rashid. This paper reviews recent research literature reporting the effects of hospital design on patient safety.
Cleanroom Technology November 2006
"Less infectious by design," by Center for Health Design's Director of Research, Anjali Joseph. A look at how hospital acquired infections can be reduced through good facility design.
Healthcare Financial Management Association November 2006
"Evidence-Based Design Takes Root," Blog written by CHD Board Member D. Kirk Hamilton.
The AIA Journal of Architecture November 2006
"Four Levels of Evidence-Based Practice," by CHD Board Member D. Kirk Hamilton.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement November, 2006
"The Sound of Two Hands Washing: Improving Hand Hygiene," features how proper hand hygiene is the single most effective method to reduce nosocomial, or hospital-borne, infections.
AJN Reports November 2006
"Designing to Heal, A new trend in evidence-based, ‘nurse-friendly’ hospital design." by Roxanne Nelson.
Wall Street Journal Online October 2006
"Hospitals Go 'Green' to Cut Toxins, Improve Patient Environment," reported by Laura Landro.
Contract Magazine October 2006
"Feels Like Deja Vu All Over Again," CHD Board Member Jain Malkin wonders why design features have a tendency to drop off sharply beyond the waiting room in patient care areas.
Business Week August 2006
"How Hospital Design Saves Lives," by Andrew Blum. Article f eatures how design changes can cut infection rates, lower physician errors, improve staff performance, and make all the difference in delivering care.
Wall St. Journal May 2006
"To Reduce Errors, Hospitals Prescribe Innovative Designs," by Gautam Naik. Newest Layouts Stress Safety With Identical Rooms, No-Slip Floors, Glass Walls St. Joseph's Team Approach.
Wall St. Journal March 2006
"The Informed Patient ," reported by Laura Landro. Article focuses new standards for hospitals call for patients to get private rooms.
Environmental Health 2006
"Re-Thinking Environments for Healthcare," An interview with Derek Parker (CHD Board Member and Principal with Anshen + Allen) in collaboration with Herman Miller.
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