Creating an Evidenced-based Design Healthcare Furniture Checklist — Questions & Answers with authors Eileen B. Malone and Barbara A. Dellinger – PART 2

Posted by on August 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

Eileen B. Malone, RN, MSN, MS, EDAC, senior partner with Mercury Healthcare Consulting LLC and Barbara A. Dellinger, MA, AAHID, IIDA, CID, EDAC, associate vice president and director of healthcare interiors-East Coast at HDR Architecture recently teamed up to create an “Evidence-based Design Checklist” for furniture in healthcare settings. The checklist has just been published in two forums – a white paper entitled, Furniture Features and Healthcare... Read More

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Creating an Evidenced-based Design Healthcare Furniture Checklist — Q&A with Eileen B. Malone and Barbara A. Dellinger – PART 1

Posted by on July 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

Eileen B. Malone, RN, MSN, MS, EDAC, senior partner with Mercury Healthcare Consulting LLC and Barbara A. Dellinger, MA, AAHID, IIDA, CID, EDAC, associate vice president and director of healthcare interiors‐East Coast at HDR Architecture recently teamed up to create an “Evidence‐based Design Checklist” for furniture in healthcare settings.   The checklist has just been published in two forums – a white paper entitled, “Furniture... Read More

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Some Positive and Not So Positive News in the Battle Against Medical Errors

Posted by on May 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

Two stories popped up last week with news on opposite ends of the spectrum in regard to patient safety, specifically the battle against medical errors. Read More

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Social Media Usage

Ed Bennett (@EdBennett) runs a great blog that successfully brings the worlds of social media and healthcare together. He provides social media resources to healthcare professionals, and can be counted on to provide the latest statistics on what hospitals are doing what when it comes to social media. I found some of his recent postings particularly [...]

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CBS, Nurture and Mike Ty...

On Sunday, July 24, CBS premiered a new show called Same Name. Running for six consecutive Sunday evenings, the show features celebrities who switch places with regular people who share their name. They learn what it’s like to live the life of someone else and see the world through their eyes. The August 7th episode featured [...]

Furniture Life Cycle Model -- graphic courtesy Malone, E. B., & Dellinger, B.A. (2011). Furniture Design Features and Healthcare Outcomes. Concord, CA: The Center for Health Design, p. 35.

Creating an Evidenced-ba...

We have learned from other industries like, nuclear and aviation, that highly-reliable environments depend on understanding how the environment and the objects in the environment shape human behavior. Furniture is one of those objects.

Creating an Evidenced-ba...

We realized that people in positions like Eileen’s (CEO or Commander in the military) are usually focused on the budget, when reviewing a furniture proposal because they don’t speak the same “language” as the designer. Depending on the designer’s background, various features may or may not be pointed out as salient features. We felt that having a tool with a common language that all could use made a lot of sense.