Webinar
Event Topic: The Center for Health Design, Pecha Kucha Healthcare Facility Networking & Design Event: “Innovations in Healthcare Design”
Presentation Title: The Hospitalization Cascade: Healing or Hazardous?
Event Date: September 18, 2014
Dochitect’s Pecha Kucha discussion addresses the hazards of hospitalization.
What is Pecha Kucha? It is an informal, energetic, creative, short format presentation of 20 slides at 20 seconds per slide.
Although hospitals are places designed to diagnose, treat and heal illness, often the process of hospitalization itself causes a cascade of physiologic decline. Hospitalization is a major risk factor for older patients and is often followed by an irreversible deterioration in functional status. The negative effects begin immediately upon admission and they progress rapidly, often by the second day. A high percentage of hospitalized elderly patients end up being discharged to nursing homes, never to return to their homes or communities. What are the implications for designers who plan the healthcare campus?
Follow the process of hospitalization from the initial emergency department assessment through to discharge planning. Understand the clinical decision processes which go into making key triage decisions that determine where patients will go within the hospital. Vital medical spaces within the acute care setting are reviewed, along with ways in which hospital layout and room design can assist in preventing some of the hazards associated with the healthcare setting.
Imagine the lessons learned if the architect could know what the doctor knows. This unique discussion provides an inside look at the hospital environment through the eyes of a “Dochitect”—a hybrid professional in medicine and architecture. Hear the story of health design from an architect pursuing internal medicine residency training and uncover new perspectives as you go with her on core rotations. Case studies highlighting the importance of space design will be shared with design anecdotes and functional analysis of hospital departments emphasizing the practical importance of design qualities that impact the work environment for staff and healing environment for patients and families.