Month: December 2022

Rethinking Healthcare Design To Help Solve Industry Pain Points

David JaegerThe U.S. healthcare system has been profoundly affected by the pandemic, accelerating the pace of moving people out of the hospital and into outpatient settings. Moving the treatment of less critical or severe conditions off the hospital campus can help reduce exposure and transmission and enables the hospital to focus on long-term and highly specific care. Within hospital environments, healthcare clients are rethinking how to plan spaces for flexibility while ensuring patient and staff safety.

These efforts are driving new approaches to healthcare facilities, including the design of patient rooms and location of core services.

Rethinking patient room design

Within hospitals today, the patient care unit has seen some of the most significant pressure to become more resilient and flexible post pandemic. Specifically, there’s demand to be able to ramp up and down the number of active beds while still supporting patient and staff safety. This has accelerated the need

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Reflections on the healthcare environment in 2022, and thoughts on the year ahead

The past 12 months have allowed the nation and our healthcare organizations to work toward achieving a new normal in terms of patient care delivery and the management of our information services teams.

Two of the most significant trends of 2022 were the transition of COVID-19 toward endemic status and the impact of the “great resignation” – particularly within our clinical communities.

Many healthcare systems faced the departure of front line clinicians, who bore the brunt of the pandemic, and left the healthcare space in droves. A significant void in personnel remained with the significant task to maintain clinical operations.

While leaders in the industry addressed this situation by using the services of temporary staffing agencies to supplement and provide the necessary clinical talent, it created financial strain on medical establishments at a substantial cost that was much more than budgeted.

This scenario, along with other supply chain and inflationary

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Alternatives To Obamacare

Health InsuranceThe Netherlands has a excessive standard of medical care. To ensure that every scholar is able to get the medical care they need, it’s necessary for worldwide students within the Netherlands to have health insurance International students are not routinely insured, so they have to organize their own insurance coverage. What form of health insurance applies to you will depend on your nation of origin, age, the length of your stay and whether or not you have got a job in the Netherlands as well as learning.

Whether you’re planning to go sightseeing, go to family members, attend a business convention, or backpack by means of Europe, you may need to first examine what you need as a way to enter the nation you are visiting. Before planning your exploratory trip to Germany or Europe, the first step it’s essential to take is check whether you need a Schengen Visa. …

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The Women’s Well being Little Ebook Of Workouts

Women's Health WorkoutsGirls have to strength prepare for fats loss. Ladies had previously undergone medical remedies related to being pregnant and those that had undergone radiation, chemotherapy therapy for most cancers have made use of this program to achieve their earlier level of health and vitality. Also, obese women who had beforehand made use of the various weight-reduction plan programs and were unable to reach slicing down their weight enrolled on this program and very quickly found themselves with a better and slim figure. Contributors discover themselves rejuvenated after finishing this program with better vitality to face the day and higher relaxation in the type of sound sleep on the end of the day. Regular bodily activity will help you to cut back the chance of coronary coronary heart disease. Being lively also may help women keep or drop extra pounds. It additionally helps to regulate blood pressure, lessens a diabetic’s need …

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How To Refresh Technology In Healthcare Facilities

Technology has played an increasing role in the delivery of healthcare over the last 20 years, driven by the expansion of the internet, Wi-Fi, and network-based systems.

From building automation and control, nurse call, television, motorized shade specifications, and IT-based interactive patient and locating systems to medical equipment such as IV pumps, smart patient beds, and other auxiliary equipment, the quantity of systems to be integrated in today’s healthcare environments is staggering.

However, hospital technology implementations often don’t meet functional requirements and clinical needs. This is because the functionality for new technologies are not being sufficiently defined nor implemented correctly. Issues include improper device locations, misunderstood technology utilization, scope issues, technology changes, and necessary adaptable spaces.

Design teams can help healthcare providers improve outcomes by assisting clinicians, IT and facilities staff, and administrators in understanding the realistic capabilities of healthcare technology.

Breaking down challenges

Oftentimes challenges arise during the procurement

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UCLA Health Selects Project Team For New Neuropsychiatric Hospital

UCLA Health (Los Angeles) has selected the project team to transform the former 175,000-square foot Olympia Medical Center in Los Angeles into a neuropsychiatric hospital.

Global design, architecture, engineering, and planning firm HOK (Los Angeles) and construction firm McCarthy Building Companies Inc. (Los Angeles) will serve as the design-build team for the project. The facility will provide services for adult, geriatric, child, adolescent, and intensive care patients.

UCLA Health’s inpatient neuropsychiatric program is currently housed in the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on UCLA’s Westwood campus in Los Angeles. The facility’s 74 inpatient psychiatric beds will be relocated to the new hospital, which will include space for additional beds, bringing the facility’s total bed count to 119.

Plans also call for 20 observation beds, as well as imaging, a pharmacy, lab areas, and administrative offices.

Trauma-informed design features will include distributed therapy

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Liquid Nutrition Hopes To Spill Across Canada

Liquid NutritionLiquid Nutrition Group Inc. (LNGI) (TSX-V: LQD.V and ) is a functional beverage, vitamin and complement retailer brand dedicated to bringing healthy and scrumptious eating to communities all over the world. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary Liquid Nutrition Franchising Corporation, LNGI is currently the franchisor of 12 stores located in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Bahamas with franchise commitments and growth opportunities all through Canada, the United States, and the Middle East in addition to license alternatives internationally.

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Tips for being an effective healthcare IT leader, in 2023 and beyond

I have been reflecting as 2022 winds down, realizing that as healthcare IT leaders prepare for a new year, there will be many headwinds facing our future path. Although it’s been almost three years since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, leading healthcare IT organizations has never been more challenging.

What worked for many years in terms of leading technology teams is often no longer enough in today’s new healthcare setting. The skills, traits and experience that made leaders successful in the past continues to change direction and evolve as the fallout from the great resignation and remote working impact the workforce.

I’d like to share, from my experience, several strategies that IT leaders may benefit to focus on as we move into 2023 and beyond to maximize retention and productivity.

Assuming that you have a healthy organizational culture, having your finger on the pulse of the environment and setting your sights

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Reasons To Celebrate – HCD Magazine

Debra LevinAt the end of every Healthcare Design Conference + Expo, I have the same thought: “This was our best year ever.” The 2022 event in San Antonio was no exception, and I’m not alone in my sentiments. In the days following, I saw countless social media posts echoing the same response.

This year felt extra special for many reasons. Though we were able to gather together last year in Cleveland, we were fewer, and people were still being very cautious. There were more fist bumps than hugs, and many friends and colleagues I saw only from the eyes up.

From day one of this year’s conference, the energy was tangible. People were excited to be together to learn and celebrate our accomplishments as a community. And celebrate we did.

There was a packed house when A. Ray Pentecost III, director of The Center for Health Systems and Design, was

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PHOTO TOUR: Friend Health Center

Friend Health wanted to establish a project that serves medically underserved areas within Chicago’s neighborhoods, particularly in the city’s South Side area.

The resulting Friend Family Health Center in the Woodlawn neighborhood is certified as a Federally Qualified Health Center that provides low-cost services to residents in need, regardless of insurance, financial status, or immigration status.

Designed by Moody Nolan (Columbus) and built by construction firm Powers and Sons (Chicago), the project spans two stories and displays a welcoming facade to the neighborhood. The building entrances are aligned with public transportation routes to encourage accessibility.

A mural on the exterior of the facility celebrates the history and diversity of the Woodlawn community, as well. Painted by local muralist Rahmaan Statik Barnes, the piece uses warmth, color, and connectedness to feature “living legends” from Woodlawn, including  Pemon Rami, Takalayah Barnes, Atiyah RunTings, Afrika Porter, Lesle Honore, Rahmaan Statik, and Masequa Myers.

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