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Field Hospitals Should be Assembled Right Now in These Locations

March 25, 2020 / Dochitect / Dochitect in the News

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Publication: Architectural Digest
Title: Field Hospitals Should be Assembled Right Now in These Locations
Date:
March 25, 2020

Excerpt: When considering locations that sick patients will be moving to in the coming weeks and months, it’s also important to consider the spaces used in the past to treat other infectious diseases. “We can also learn lessons from prior health care designs, such as the tuberculosis sanatorium,” says Diana Anderson, M.D., an internal medicine physician and a board-certified health care architect and a current clinical fellow at the University of California San Francisco. “These facilities were initially designed so that the building itself could be used as a form of treatment, given the lack of pharmacologic treatments at the time. Similar to the scenario we face with COVID-19, fresh air, ventilation, and isolation are key factors in controlling the spread, all of which have connections to the built environment.”

Read the full article HERE.

Architecture – A Critical Ingredient of Pandemic Medicine

March 21, 2020 / Dochitect / Dochitect in the News

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Type of Publication: An Open Letter to Policy Makers
Title: Architecture a Critical Ingredient of Pandemic Medicine
Authors: William J. Hercules, FAIA, FACHA, FACHE; Diana Anderson, MD, ACHA; Marc Sansom, MBA
Date:
March 21, 2020

The built environment is a critical part of pandemic solutions and emergency preparedness.

Excerpt: Architects in general, and specifically board-certified healthcare architects, are key and valuable resources for rapid adjustments to current hospital and non-hospital infrastructure – repurposing old healthcare buildings, erecting temporary structures, and considering emergency preparedness in our building’s codes and design guidelines.  Current space utilization in hospitals can be quickly evaluated by these experts to maximize existing areas for use.

Read our complete Open Letter on Architecture and Pandemic Preparedness HERE.

**Also featured in Architect Magazine and Canadian Architect in addition to SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange**

How This Architect Turned Doctor Designs for Healing

March 2, 2020 / Dochitect / Dochitect in the News

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Publication: Azure Magazine
Title: Comfort Zones—Prescriptions for creating restorative spaces from ‘dochitect’ Diana Anderson
Authors: Kendra Jackson
Date:
May, 2020

Prescriptions for creating restorative spaces from “dochitect” Diana Anderson include residential inspiration, limiting hierarchies and nurturing well-being for staff and patients alike.

Excerpt: Working at the intersection of architecture and medicine, Dr. Diana Anderson — both a healthcare architect and a board-certified internist — has a unique perspective on how buildings can influence healing and well-being for both patients and healthcare providers.

Founder of Dochitect, a collaborative model for approaching healthcare design from both fields simultaneously, Canada-born, California-based Anderson champions a refocusing of the built environment from being mere backdrops for medical encounters and toward settings that are humanistic and solution-based. Here, she shares insights on how architecture can promote healing.

Read the full article HERE.

KHN: In Search Of Age-Friendly Health Care, Finding Room For Improvement

September 13, 2019 / Dochitect / Dochitect in the News

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Publication: Kaiser Health News
Title: ‘In Search Of Age-Friendly Health Care, Finding Room For Improvement’
Date: Online September 13, 2019

Dochitect is interviewed about health design ideas for an aging population.

Older adults represent a large share of patients at doctors’ offices, clinics and hospitals. So why haven’t these facilities created environments they can navigate easily?

Read Judith Graham’s column in Kaiser Health News HERE about why it is time for a change.

Patients’ families are more than just ‘visitors’

June 24, 2019 / Dochitect / Dochitect in the News

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Publication: Montreal Gazette
Title: Patients’ families are more than just ‘visitors’
Date: Online June 24, 2019; In print June 25, 2019

Click here to read the Opinion piece

The Bauhaus: its influence on hospital design and wine labels

June 12, 2019 / Dochitect / Dochitect in the News

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Publication: Bone Marrow Transplantation
Title: The Bauhaus: its influence on hospital design and wine labels
Author: Shaun R. McCann, Haematology Emeritus, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Date:
June 12, 2019

Excerpt:
“Did the ‘Bauhaus’ movement influence hospital design? Yes. Tony Monk… claims that ‘it (hospital design) was based on the then Modern Movement principles that form follows function’… The Bauhaus endures because its principles can be boiled down to universal ideas: functionality, simplicity and innovation.”

Dochitect is referenced in this Editorial:
“Like many things from music to furniture not everybody approved the Modernist movement. Some believed that hospital design had become ‘too clinical’ and lacked ‘humanity’. Dr Diana Anderson, an architect and physician, has been in the forefront in trying to increase awareness of the importance of including staff and patients’ wellbeing into hospital design. I fully agree with Dr Anderson and tried to enhance the environment in The National Bone Marrow Transplant Unit in St James’ Hospital some years ago.”

Read the full text HERE

Fig.1 from: The Bauhaus: its influence on hospital design and wine labels

Clinicians dive into hospital design

April 12, 2018 / Dochitect / Dochitect in the News

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Publication: ACP Hospitalist
Title: Clinicians dive into hospital design
Date: April 12, 2018

ACP Hospitalist

Dochitect was interviewed by ACP Hospitalist on the topic of clinicians and design!

Excerpt: Researchers from health care and design backgrounds have been increasingly focusing on how the layout and allocation of space in hospitals can promote the well-being of both patients and clinicians.

Read the article here.

Quality of life: why most doctors don’t care?

March 26, 2018 / Dochitect / Dochitect in the News

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Publication: Quarterly Journal of Medicine (QJM): An International Journal of Medicine
Publication Reference: 2018 Mar 26. doi: 10.1093/qjmed/hcy070
Title: Quality of life: why most doctors don’t care?
Author: Shaun R. McCann, MD, Department of Haematology, Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin

Dochitect is quoted in this commentary piece on physicians and their take on Quality of Life (QoL) of patients:

“Hospital design has recently come under scrutiny within  the context of QoL. Diana Anderson, an MD and architect, has spearheaded a movement that hopes to stimulate an interest  in hospital design with a view to making hospitals more pleasant places in which to be a patient and for health care workers to carry out their daily work.”

Read the article here

Is there ever a ‘good death’?

November 29, 2017 / Dochitect / Dochitect in the News

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Publication: The Globe and Mail
Title: Is there ever a ‘good death’?
Date: Online November 29, 2017; In print November 30, 2017

Click here to read the article

Design Thinking for Doctors and Nurses

August 3, 2017 / Dochitect / Dochitect in the News

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Publication: The New York Times
Title: Design Thinking for Doctors and Nurses
Date: August 3, 2017

Dochitect was interviewed by The New York Times regarding the notion of design thinking in healthcare and the creation of Clinicians for Design– an international network of healthcare providers, offering online discussions as well as workshops and digital resources, with a focus on improving healthcare delivery and the hospital’s physical layout.

Read the article here.

To learn more about Clinicians for Design, click here to visit the website.

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