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The reality of designing simulation centers
Hospitals are finding a number of ways to help create a heightened sense of reality that can facilitate training and practice for medical staff. Read the related article "The reality of designing simulation centers."
The Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center, Baltimore, is located in renovated space on the seventh floor of the Johns Hopkins health system’s former children’s hospital and includes simulated patient rooms, labor and delivery rooms, operating rooms and trauma/intensive care rooms. | Photo ©Alain Jaramillo Photography
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At the SYN:APSE [Simulation at Yale New Haven: Advancing Patient Safety and Education] Center, clinical spaces are built to the same design standards as their counterparts at Yale New Haven Health System hospitals, down to the paint color. | Photo courtesy of Woodruff and Brown
Boston Children’s Simulator Program (SIMPeds) has a reception area that can also serve as hospital admissions in a medical simulation scenario. | Photo by Anton Grassl
Boston Children’s Simulator Program's simulation Room 1 can be made to resemble an outpatient clinic or a child’s home bedroom. | Photo by Anton Grassl
Boston Children's Hospital's SIMPeds inventor space, a rapid-prototyping center for medical innovations. | Photo by Anton Grassl
The Davis Global Center, under construction on the campus of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, is a 192,000-square-foot clinical simulation facility in which each level will be dedicated to a different aspect of medical simulation. | Rendering courtesy of UNMC and The Clark Enersen Partners
The Simulation Studio at the Connecticut Institute for Primary Care Innovation, Hartford, is an open, high-bay area where environments can be mocked up for training, research and development purposes. | Photo ©Robert Benson Photography