Architecture

Academy will focus on issues to improve facility design and construction.

Also this week: New Physical Environment Portal resources and CDC launches personal protective equipment project.

Does your health care organization create mock-ups prior to finalizing designs?.

Lean design and whimsical touches combine to create a new $42 million hospital that its CEO hopes will reshape pediatric care  .

Also this week: Senate report on infections from duodenoscopes, and AHA recommendations to expand broadband access to rural hospitals.

Health facilities provide a variety of design challenges.

Four directors and CEOs connected to major health systems discuss why they continue to consolidate services.

Trinidad called on firms from the US and China to design and build the new Couva Children's Hospital and Training Center.

Also this week: New guidance on unique device identification and study finds 50 percent of hospital mattresses contain resistant-bacteria.

January 2016 Toolbox.