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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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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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Healing the Hospital Environment: Design, Maintenance and Management of Healthcare Premises
Liz Haggard
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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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You've decided to invest large amounts of time, money, and manpower in a facility expansion. Getting it done right the first time is critical, and your role is key. This book provides what executives need to know about launching, organizing, and implementing a capital project.
The book defines the key components of the project delivery process, the expected outcomes, and the risks involved. Special attention is given to the "project launch phase," the stage at which the project is defined. You will also learn what pitfalls to avoid and how to develop a complete and experienced delivery team.
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The history of the hospital has been so neglected in publications covering the past three decades that it comes as a jolt that the hospital itself has slipped out of the starring role. This important book for both architectural and medical professionals focuses on the rise and demise of the modern megahospital of the 1950s and 60s and the turn toward community-based healthcare centers, hospitals, and clinics that we are beginning to see at the turn of the century. Each chapter surveys changing attitudes in health care and the parallel changes effected in architecture. In addition to critiquing what did and didn't work and why in the way of architectural design, the authors present the conditions and events that have characterized the healthcare picture during the past decades: the dilemma of the inner city hospital, the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid, the rise of the investor-owned hospital, and the coming of the hospice movement. They devote an entire chapter on architectural environments for the aged, ending with likely consequences of baby-boom aging.
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Transformational Room Chapter is great.......2000-11-21
The chapter on the transformational room offers generous descriptions and anaylsis of reseach based concepts. Verderber and Fine clasify the maternity suite as such a room, they also provide a great BRIEF history of birthing centers in the U.S. The book seems well thought out and thorough.
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Are you faced with the daunting task of spending millions of dollars on updating, reconfiguring, expanding, or replacing your facility? Healthcare Facility Planning: Thinking Strategically is a practical guide to help you ensure that your facility is flexible and able to meet the needs of patients, caregivers, and payers long into the future. The focus of this book is on predesign planning, a stage of the healthcare facility planning, design, and construction process that is frequently overlooked. Decisions made during this phase have the most impact on long-term operational costs. Detailed examples, guidelines, and case studies will lead you step-by-step through a proven predesign planning process.
Benefit from the author's 25 years of experience in healthcare facility planning and her involvement in major projects at the Kettering Medical Center and Lee Memorial Health System. This book will help you appreciate the importance of the predesign planning process, understand the trends affecting space allocation and configuration, and learn techniques for planning flexible facilities.
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Sustainable Healthcare Architecture
Robin Guenther , and
Gail Vittori
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The authors are recognized as national experts in the design of hospitals and other health care facilities that are "sustainable." Both authors are engaged in the development of the Green Guide for Health Care 2.0 Pilot (gghc.org) that launched in late 2004. A new rating system and policy, LEED Application Guide for Healthcare (LEED-HC), using the Green Guide as its foundation, is scheduled for release by USGBC in late 2006 and both authors are active in its development. This book will build upon the authors' combined expertise and will be considered THE guide to learning about sustainable practices for healthcare and LEED-HC. It will include LEED-HC information and guidelines, as well as case studies of the best projects and contributed essays by acknowledged experts on topics related to sustainable design for healthcare. Importantly, an increasing number of hospitals and other health care facility building projects are required to be sustainable in some way, especially if the project is receiving government funding.
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The authenticity of visual art has always commanded the attention of experts, dealers, collectors, and the art-minded public. Is it "real" or "original" is a way of asking what am I buying? What do I own? What am I looking at? And today more sophisticated questions are being asked: How is authenticity determined and what weight does this determination have in court? This book of essays proposes to answer those questions. Three lines of inquiry are basic to determining authenticity: a connoisseur's evaluation, historical documentation or provenance, and scientific testing. A connoisseur is an expert who evaluates the "rightness" of a work based on much careful scrutiny of many works by an artist and familiarity with that artist's usual manner of working with materials. In determining provenance, a researcher traces the physical object from the artist through a chain of ownership to the present owner--simple enough in concept, though it assumes that the documentation is not faked or inaccurate. The goal is to ensure that the object is the same one that left the artist's hand. Scientific testing, although sometimes useful, is often longer on promise than result. Dating paint or wood samples, for instance, can show that a painting was made in Rembrandt's lifetime, but it cannot prove that it is by Rembrandt's hand. If expert opinion is divided, and large sums of money are involved, a dispute over authenticity may end up in a court of law, where evaluation of expert opinion evidence can be problematic. The essays in this book clarify the nature of the methods outlined above and explain, based on case law, the present status of authentication issues in court. Contributors include experts from Christie's, London; Sotheby's, New York; and the former director of the Frick Collection; as well as leading art historians and art dealers; an art conservator; a forensic graphologist; a philanthropist and collector; and a specialist in French art law. Their collective knowledge on issues of authenticity will be invaluable for anyone interested in the world of visual art.
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The man who mistook his wife for a de Kooning.......2006-02-07
The purpose of this book is not to entertain the general public; it is shop-talk for a certain portion of the art world--the art trade and museums. The essays are uniformly competent and written in a lively, digestible fashion. Some essays are digressive, others terse, all are useful if you're trying to think through an authentication.
An unusual book.......2005-08-24
Despite the repitition, this is an excellent book. It gets "under the skin" of the subject and provides a broad context. Unfortunately at times this context is nebulous and one can never quite pin it down - but one does get a good feel for this nebulosity in this book. The last few sections deal with legal issues and are fascinating. With multiple contributors some repitition is inevitable and perhaps could have been editied out, but so what? There's a lot of meat nicely cooked and presented.
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Faking it.(Book Review): An article from: New Criterion
Marco Grassi
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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2173 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Faking it.(Book Review)
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