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Telehealth offers opportunities to improve care in rural areas
Pandemic causes significant increase in telehealth with implications for infrastructure and building layout
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Strategies to rebuild rural health care facilities
Focusing capital in key areas can help to strengthen rural hospitals and provide stability
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Marketplace
Furniture vendors target infections and other issues
Top priorities include cleanability, flexibility and accommodating all body types
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Design
The state of design evidence in comorbid behavioral health
Studies focus on anti-ligature design and creating healing, calming environments
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Design
Behavioral health and its influence on design
Behavioral and medical health comorbidities call for a rethink in patient room design
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Design
Designing the inclusive inpatient room
Advice for design teams on planning spaces to handle medical and behavioral health comorbidities
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Design
Patients, staff differ on design opinions
Architects measured feedback on a mock behavioral health patient room designed for a VA hospital.
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Design
Renovation accommodates behavioral health patients
IU Health Ball Memorial has transformed its emergency department to better handle an increase in behavioral health patients
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Architecture
Study: ED design impacts informal communication
Researchers say a combination of open layout and private space is key for communication among ED staff
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Interiors
Applying behavioral health design strategies to the ED environment
Providing a safe and therapeutic emergency department through material, equipment and design selection
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