Healing Environment for hospitals

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Healing Environments
Of Hospitals
By WISAM NABEEL Interior Design
Ministry of Health\ Iraq
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www.cfm.va.gor/til
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recognize
that

• The design of facilities critically affects the
• effectiveness

• Efficiency of the performance of VAs missions.

True high-performance buildings will support the
VA healthcare delivery mission and goals for
transformation to 21st-century care.
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Healing Environments Committee Principal
Recommendation
Provide buildings designed to

• support the creation of optimal healing
  environments that reduce adverse health and
  safety threats, improve health outcomes

• expedite patient recovery

• promote the overall health and wellbeing of
• occupants

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Healing Environments Committee has developed
four supporting recommendations
for VA to consider.

• Healthy Interactions and Behaviors

• Trauma-Informed Care

• Indoor Environmental Quality and Materials

• Infection Control

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Healthy Interactions and Behaviors Develop and
include design features that promote

• Positive interactions

• Communication

• Teamwork

• Healthy

• Active behaviors for veterans, family, and staff
  in all
• facilities.

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Healthy Interactions and Behaviors
Patients recover faster in private rooms
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Healthy Interactions and Behaviors
Rooms that include the patient and family as
integral team members achieve better outcomes.
(LDRP)
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Healthy Interactions and Behaviors
Providing positive distractions through music and
art can improve the care experience and the
patients perception of pain.
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Samples of HE in hospitals that designers had
been considered
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Samples of HE in ZAIN AL-ABIDEN hospitals in
KERBLA
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Healthy Interactions and Behaviors
More access to natural lighting reduces patient
anxiety and depression and shortens length of
stay.
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Healthy Interactions and Behaviors
Access and exposure to nature substantially
reduce stress and anxiety and have a restorative
effect.
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Healthy Interactions and Behaviors
Single patient rooms reduce infection rates.
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Healthy Interactions and Behaviors
Wider bathroom doors contribute to reducing
patient falls.
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Healthy Interactions and Behaviors
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Healthy Interactions and Behaviors

• Adequate lighting levels reduce staff
  medication-dispensing errors.

• Variable acuity rooms reduce expensive and
  potentially dangerous patient transfers.

• A good acoustic environment can reduce patient
  and provider stress, improve patient sleep
  quality, and increase staff productivity.

• Effective air quality control and ventilation
  systems help to reduce the rate of air-born
  infections.

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Trauma-Informed Care Undertake a comprehensive
report and additional sponsored research on the
impact of the built environment on health and
healing in healthcare settings on veterans who
have experienced trauma, including individuals
experiencing military-related trauma.
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Indoor Environmental Quality and Materials Set
priorities for improved indoor environmental
quality in all facility

• construction

• renovation

• maintenance protocols

• Consider the specific connections between
  building materials and occupant, community , and
  global health.

• Investigate the health hazards associated with
  the installation and maintenance of building
  materials.

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Indoor Environmental Quality and Materials
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Infection Control Analyze best practice current
concepts of infection control and the
architectural features and mechanical system
implications for inpatient and outpatient
facilities.
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Resources

• LED CONVENTIONAL LIGHTING SYSTEMS COMPARSION
  STUDY

• U.S. AIR FORCE SURGEON GENERAL / AFMS INTERIOR
  DESIGN STANDARDS v.2

• U.S. AIR FORCE SURGEON GENERAL / AFMS INTERIOR
  DESIGN STANDARDS v.1

• Lighting and colour for hospital design

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Thank You