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2025 Salary Survey results

Data from the 2025 Salary Survey reveal how health care organizations are turning up the dial on employee satisfaction

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The ambulatory shift: the need for better benchmarking metrics

Comprehensive research project analyzes ambulatory care trends, with the aim to develop robust metrics to guide future planning

Larsen Health Center

Design innovation for stress reduction

Methods for creating a compact, multi-sensory and immersive restorative staff space

Busy health care waiting room

Staff perspectives on patient experience

Clinical and support services staff share their opinions on what makes safe and comfortable healing environment

VA Palo Alto EVS team

2025 Environmental Services Departments of the Year

The Association for the Health Care Environment honors top-performing teams for operational excellence

Latest from HFM

patient beds and hallways in alternate care conversion facility

Playbook on facility conversion released

Flexible medical gas tubing connected to patient headwall

Using new tech while adhering to older codes

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NFPA weekly update: Dec. 8-12

Sponsored Editorial

Design & Construction

Groundbreaking at St. Vincent replacement hospital

Pandemic readiness is designed into new replacement facility

Intermountain's Billings, Mont., hospital deploys ICU-ready universal room concept for increased flexibility

West Jefferson Medical Center

Adapting to challenges before and after opening

A Louisiana health system shares how it evolved its master plan strategy alongside health care market changes

The cost of poor activation for new projects

Hospital construction costs briefly reverse course

ICC posts proposal comments ahead of next committee action hearing

Carilion Roanoke gets vertical upgrade

Products & Field Reports

Boldt Construction pre-fabricated exam room solution

Modular building saves time and costs

Prefabricated construction approach to new outpatient clinic reduces project timeline to just 12 months

Axis Lighting

Lighting equipment and control innovations

Options improve energy efficiency, caregiver control and patient comfort

Northside Hospital Forsyth

Chiller optimization meets demand

Georgia hospital chooses a tailored solution to mitigate rising utility costs.

Codes & Standards

CMS improves survey transparency

CMS improves survey transparency

Plus: Joint Commission updates standards; NFPA elects new Health Care Section Chair; ASPR tests biocontainment transporting unit

Expert Insights

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Planning care spaces for daylight and views

New entries in The Center for Health Design's Knowledge Repository further the case for windows in patient care rooms

Hospital employs autonomous mowers

Researchers review engineering controls

Pandemic readiness is designed into new replacement facility

Window closing to comply with CMS sprinkler requirement

NFPA weekly update: Nov. 24-28

Emotional barriers block effective communication

NFPA weekly update: Nov. 17-21

Health care systems go electric for sustainability and resiliency

NFPA weekly update: Nov. 10-14

Committee wraps up work on reliability-centered maintenance resource

ICC committee advances key code changes

NFPA weekly update: Oct. 27-31

Carilion Roanoke gets vertical upgrade

It’s all too much: communication overload in today’s workplace

NFPA weekly update: Oct 20-24

Northwell gains new security capabilities