Design that Cares:
Planning Health Facilities for Patients and Visitors,
Second Edition
by Janet R. Carpman and Myron A. Grant
Published by Jossey-Bass,
latest printing 2001, 310 pages, $49.95
During a time when cost containment and
advanced technology are pressing issues in health care, the human needs of
health care consumers often take a back seat. This book presents a humane
approach to the design of health care facilities by balancing an extensive
research base with a focus on design decision-making. It shows how to achieve
design that not only cares for patients and visitors, but design
that also cares about them.
Design that Cares
begins with a look at the need for humanistic health facility design. It focuses
on the patient’s and visitor’s journey through a generic facility, laying
out the design and behavior issues that need to be considered:
- Planning for arrival and exterior
wayfinding
- Interior wayfinding and the
circulation system
- Waiting and reception areas
- Diagnostic and treatment areas
- Inpatient rooms and baths
- Gaining access to nature
- Special design needs of the elderly
and users with impairments
- Special places such as the emergency
department
- Special services such as provisions
for overnight accommodations
A final chapter describes ways in which
users can participate in facility design, and discusses the benefits of their
involvement.
Design that Cares
won an
Applied Research Award from Progressive Architecture magazine, and the Best of
Category Research Award from ID, The Magazine of International Design. Reviews
were positive, including these:
"The most comprehensive blueprint
yet drawn for tailoring the design of Health Care facilities... to the measure
of the people they most intimately affect."
— Architectural Record
"A breakthrough in the health care
field. I hope designers will use it as a guide and academics as a stepping stone
to further research in the health care field."
— Interiors
"A substantial contribution to
architectural theory in its questioning of traditional design methods."
—
Progressive Architecture
"It should inspire designers and
researchers alike... The authors offer us an example of design that is willing
to take up the mess of being human, and make it better."
– ID, The Magazine of
International Design
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