The value of involving patients' and family members' voices in the dialogue about healthcare
facility environments is immense if society's goal is to meet people's needs. Reports from …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Although there has been little systematic assessment of
how the built environment of health care facilities affects the quality of care, the built …

The vast majority of GPs believe that they can achieve excellence in their practice when they
have developed the optimal mix of knowledge, experience, skills, attitudes, and effective …

H ow often do you think about the auditory, visual, olfactory, and tactile im-pressions your
hospital unit makes on patients? Steal a moment, close your eyes, and lis-ten to the cacophony …

The idea of strengthening a marketing campaign with the use of environmental design is not
new, although the health care industry seems to have developed a recent awarencss of this …

In Figure 1, the ‘status quo’illustration suggests an example conceptually similar to the
Nightingale ward–the healthcare provider organisation is successfully using its environment to …

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… The Center for Health Design under Wayne Ruga’s leadership sponsored the project,
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Mardelle … The research consultants would like to thank Wayne Ruga and Debra Levin for their …