Hospital Building and Departmental Area Calculation: Comparison of 36 Recent North American Projects

Lavy, Sarel; Hamilton, D. Kirk; Yin, Jie; Kircher, Amy; Dixit, Manish; Lee, Jin-Ting

doi:10.1177/1937586719834731

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“…According to the psychological characteristics of users and the psychological effect of color, a humanized urban road green space is designed. Literature [ 12 ] studies the application of color psychology in hospital interior design. From the perspective of color psychology, the author conducts sufficient research on color and psychology of indoor design and analyzes how to use color psychology in hospital indoor design.…”

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[Retracted] The Application of Color Psychology in Community Health Environment Design

Yang

Shen

2022

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

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The topic of health has gained importance in today’s society in the context of a healthy China. The success of community environmental design is intimately correlated with everyone’s physical and mental health since it is the setting for people’s daily lives. At present, although the facilities and equipment of the community environment in our country are improving day by day, the important role of color psychology in the community environment has been neglected. Color has always been a part of human life and a very important component of the community environment. When it comes to the design of communal environments, the color design of various areas will have variable degrees of influence on the psychological space and perspective of individuals. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the application value of color psychology in the design of community health environments using color psychology as a scientific foundation. Additionally, the paper attempts to use color psychology as a scientific basis to study the thinking of health issues in the community environment. In addition, the results of the questionnaire survey are used to perform analysis and discussion in order to investigate the regular characteristics of the various research objects, as well as their preferences and psychological needs for color. This is done with the goal of providing empirical support for the improvement of the community environment and the health of the people living in it. In the end, the results of the questionnaire survey are compiled with four different design concepts. These design principles include functionality, naturalness, beauty, and safety. And the design intention and optimization strategy from the three directions the overall building, planting, and paving in the community healthy environment are then presented. This is done in order to create a colorful and comfortable healthy environment for the community life of people and to support the development of people’s physical and mental health.

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[Retracted] The Application of Color Psychology in Community Health Environment Design

Yang

Shen

2022

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

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“…Naturally, the aim is not to evaluate an Emergency Department solely on the basis of its area due to different starting conditions. However, the study of the area element is commonly considered in the research and practical environment to be a very valuable tool for assessing the accuracy of a design, and therefore benchmark strategies on this element have been adopted for data analysis [23][24][25]. The area specification, especially shown as a percentage of the total area, can help to point out several principal relations.…”

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Analysis of Functional Layout in Emergency Departments (ED). Shedding Light on the Free Standing Emergency Department (FSED) Model

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The ever-increasing number of hospital Emergency Department (ED) visits pose a challenge to the effective running of health systems in many countries globally and multiple strategies have been adopted over the years to tackle the plight. According to a systematic review of the available literature, of the numerous models of healthcare systems used to address the issue in western countries, the FSED Model has the greatest potential for reducing hospital ED overcrowding as it can reduce the additional load by diverting minor cases, freeing up space for more urgent cases. The aim of the study is to shed light on the Free Standing Emergency Department (FSED) model and compare it with the traditional Hospital Based Emergency Department (HBED) in international contexts. In this study, 23 papers have been collected in a literature review and the main features have been highlighted; 12 case studies have been analyzed from a layout point of view and data have been collected in terms of surfaces, functions, and flow patterns. The percentages of floor areas devoted to each function have been compared to define evolution strategies in the development of emergency healthcare models and analyses. The use of FSED models is an interesting way to face the overcrowding problem and a specific range for functional area layout has been identified. Further studies on its application in different contexts are encouraged.

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“…Building upon prior work by Allison and Hamilton (2008), Hamilton and Lavy (2017), Latimer et al (2008), Lavy et al (2019), and Pingel (2021) regarding healthcare space use measurement and allocation, the purpose of this study is to fill a gap in the literature with respect to the physical attributes and space characteristics of ACUs completed in the United States since 2007-after the industry's shift to single-patient rooms (SPR) compliant with the requirements of the Facilities Guidelines Institute (FGI, 2006), during the passage and effectuation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA; 2010), and coinciding with the Great Recession and subsequent economic expansion.…”

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“…Forecasting the gross, departmental, and net space needs for a healthcare facility is vital in determining its configuration and accurately estimating its cost during planning (Hamilton & Lavy, 2017; Lavy et al, 2019; Sharma et al, 2020). More research is needed to fill a knowledge gap concerning the in-practice physical attributes and space use allocations for ACUs.…”

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Space Use and the Physical Attributes of Acute Care Units: A Quantitative Study

Kelly

Pingel

2021

HERD

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This article shares the results of a quantitative analysis of the space use and physical attributes of 140 acute care units (ACU) completed since 2007. Objective: To fill a gap in the literature with respect to the state of practice for ACU design over the study period by investigating relationships among the physical characteristics and density of completed ACUs. Background: Robust industry interest about the topic—further agitated by the dearth of large-scale quantitative research regarding ACU space use—motivated completion of the study. Method: Through extraordinary collaboration by participating firms, floor plans of 140 new ACUs from the study period were gathered, systematically measured, and then analyzed. Results: Structural bay size, nurse station location, and the number of beds per unit were found to have significant relationships to ACU floor-gross area per bed. Additionally, nine significant associations among the explanatory variables were found, including moderate relationships among bay size, nurse station location, room handedness, and toilet room placement. Conclusion: The results suggest that project design teams tend to bundle key physical attributes together when planning ACUs. Moreover, density increases resulting from bay size reduction diminish as the bay size drops below 31′. Any impacts resulting from the major external events demarking the last decade were not sufficient to appreciably affect ACU density. Lastly, those concerned with increasing density and controlling ACU floor gross area are alerted to explore design options featuring bay sizes of approximately 30′ in conjunction with a centralized nursing model containing more than 32 beds per unit.

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Hospital Building and Departmental Area Calculation: Comparison of 36 Recent North American Projects

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

[Retracted] The Application of Color Psychology in Community Health Environment Design

[Retracted] The Application of Color Psychology in Community Health Environment Design

Analysis of Functional Layout in Emergency Departments (ED). Shedding Light on the Free Standing Emergency Department (FSED) Model

Space Use and the Physical Attributes of Acute Care Units: A Quantitative Study

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