How can facility design impact healthcare outcomes?

1. The building itself can help to reduce the stress experienced by patients, their families, and the teams caring for them.                             
2. Design can help produce the preferred healthcare outcomes being sought and mitigate untoward results.

What are the 7 current trends influencing healthcare in the United States today?

1. Public focus on Quality and Safety
2. Reimbursement Challenges
3. Aging Population and caregiver shortages
4. Health Information technology
5. Genomics and technology
6. Emergency Room saturation and disaster preparedness
7. Sustainable healthcare

EBD can positively influence these challenges by designing healing and therapeutic environments that help reduce errors, improve patient and staff satisfaction, enhance efficiency and support the latest advances such as HIT and genomics.

Select the best answer:

Evidence based design is the process of basing decisions about ________ on credible research to achieve the best possible results.

1. patient outcomes
2. the built environment
3. nursing staff-to-patient ratios

1. patient outcomes
2. the built environment
3. nursing staff-to-patient ratios

Which of the following clinical and safety outcomes are not typically affected by the design of the physical healthcare environment?

1. medical errors
2. adverse reactions to drugs
3. hospital acquired infections

1. medical errors
2. adverse reactions to drugs
3. hospital acquired infections

T/F:  Employee turn over rates may be influenced by the physical design of a healthcare facility.

True

The goal of the business case for EBD is to determine how healthcare facility investments contribute to improvements in patient care quality and the safety and satisfaction of both patients and staff while positively enhancing:

1. the bottom line
2. the physical design
3. work-force efficiency

1. the bottom line
2. the physical design
3. work-force efficiency

Central to making the business case for physical design innovations is the need to balance ________ against ongoing operating savings and revenue enhancements.

1. patient outcomes
2. one-time construction costs
3. longer design and construction timelines.

1. patient outcomes
2. one-time construction costs
3. longer design and construction timelines.

Staff outcomes that may not be influenced by the design of the physical healthcare environment are:

1. turnover
2. efficiency
3. personality

1. turnover
2. efficiency
3. personality

St. Joseph's Community Hospital

West Bend, WI

At the core of EBD is a fundamental shift in the way healthcare organizations think about, deliver and manage ________.

Buildings

What is the special design feature at Bronson Methodist Hospital?

Central Garden Atrium

1. Public Focus on Quality and Safety

2. Reimbursement challenges

3. Aging population and care giver shortage.

4. Health Information Techonology

5. Genommics and Techonology

6. Emergency Room Saturation and Disaster Preparedness.

7. Sustainable Healthcare.