Posted December 20, 2007
Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare: Product News
New from AHRQ: DVD on Designing Hospitals for Safety and Quality
HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released a new free DVD that provides evidence to help hospital officials and architects design safer, high quality hospitals. This new two-part DVD illustrates the value of evidence-based hospital design — a phrase used to describe how the physical design of health care environments affects patients and staff.
The first part entitled, Transforming Hospitals: Designing for Safety and Quality, gives a brief 13-minute overview and provides current examples of how evidence-based hospital design increases patient safety, satisfaction and quality of care that results in higher staff satisfaction, recruitment and retention.
The second part, Transforming Hospitals: Three Case Studies, is 36 minutes in length and features the experiences of three hospitals that incorporated principles of evidence-based hospital design into new construction and renovation projects. These facilities include Griffin Hospital, Derby, Conn.; Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring, Md.; and Woodwinds Health Campus, Woodbury, Minn.
Overall, this two-part DVD explains how evidence-based hospital design construction can deliver:
- Higher quality care
- Greater patient satisfaction
- Superior staff safety
- Positive return on investment
For more information on Transforming Hospitals: Designing for Safety and Quality or AHRQ's research in evidence-based hospital design, visit the AHRQ Web site: http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/transform.htm.
Copies of the free DVD can be requested through the AHRQ Publications Clearinghouse at 1-800-358-9295 or via e-mail: AHRQPubs@ahrq.hhs.gov.
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