Healthcare Design

Provides a holistic approach to designing traditional and emerging clinical health settings for different users including patients, healthcare staff, and care givers through unique space planning requirements.

Features short- and long-term care facilities, including assisted living, group homes, hospices, rehabilitation centers, psychiatric units, medical hotels, offices, adult day care, and wellness centers. Includes photographs, diagrams and plans. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Includes a range of sustainable architectural responses to designing for health, such as: integrating sensory gardens and landscapes into the care environment; specifying local materials and passive technologies; and reinvigorating aging postwar facilities. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Evidence-based design guidelines for the design of hospitals, including public spaces such as patios, waiting rooms, and healing gardens, with brief case studies of recent projects around the world. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores a range of clinic types, from traditional community clinics to clinic models that might be located adjacent to a hospital, in a commercial storefront, or within a retail pharmacy or big box stores. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Considers all areas of sustainable design for healthcare projects, including water, energy, materials, indoor environmental quality, ratings and certifications, and making the business case for going green. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Evidence-based overview of healing gardens and therapeutic landscapes from planning to post-occupancy evaluation. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Covers sustainability, space planning, interior design, wayfinding, codes, building systems, parking, and landscaping. Includes photographs, diagrams, charts, tables, plans, and elevations

Provides a frame of reference for understanding cultural differences and strategies for providing the best possible care to multicultural communities.

Covers space planning, wayfinding, acoustics, lighting, materials and finishes, special equipment needs, and access to the outdoors through evidence-based design and a patient-centered approach. Includes drawings, diagrams, and a checklist of design considerations at the end of each chapter

Covers the evidence-based design process, with case studies that highlight best practices and include photographs, plans, diagrams, and charts

Covers space planning, interior design, codes, construction methods, and building systems for all types of healthcare facilities including psychiatry, physical therapy, pharmacy and dentistry. Includes photographs, charts and plans

Covers space planning, interior design, ergonomics, and access to the outdoors for recovery rooms, critical care units, emergency departments, diagnostic units, and staff spaces. Includes photographs, renderings, diagrams, charts, tables, and plans