An authoritative look into the future of healthcare technology and facility design.

A state-of-the-art blueprint for architects, planners, and hospital administrators, Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design provides innovative ideas and practical guidelines for planning and designing facilities for the rapidly changing healthcare field.

Contains hundreds of color and black/white photographs, architectural drawings and renderings, and extensive and detailed floor plans throughout the book.

Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design 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.

Contents:

1. Principles: New Paradigms for a New Century
2. The Traditional Hospital: A Warehouse for the Sick
3. New Markets, New Design Principles
4. Making Yesterday's Hospitals Work Today
5. The Emergency Unit
6. Diagnostic Imaging
7. Surgery Facilities
8. Critical Care
9. The Patient Care Unit
10. Ambulatory Care Design, Professional Offices, and Bedless Hospitals
11. Women's Health Facilities and Pediatrics
12. Design for the Elderly: Subacute and Long-term Care
13. Trends for a New Century

Index

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