Architecture

Architecture that pays attention to patient experience, workflow and sustainability while consolidating services.

Also this week: APIC highlights strategies during active-shooter situations and FDA issues updates on health care gown requirements.

Consumer-minded mothers and Affordable Care Act drive changes in maternity care.

Loma Linda University Medical Center put its emergency preparedness plan into action and was ready 'to take up to 50 patients'.

Lean design principles are helping to take waste out of health care operations and optimize workflows.

Also this week: Study finds clinical workstations an overlooked area in environmental cleaning and AAMI releases resource on managing clinical alarms.

Experts assess how changes in hospital design, infrastructure, infection prevention and more will protect patients.

The 235,000-square-foot facility is Georgia's first newly built hospital in 20 years.

Also this week: CDC updates its infection prevention guidelines for outpatient settings, public health officials urged to review security plans and a ventilator system recall.

Group tries to squelch potential threat of medical device hacking.