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Robert A. Zeiss - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Environmental and Therapeutic Issues in Psychiatric Hospital Design: Toward Best Practices
Psychiatric Services, 2006Co-Authors: Bradley E. Karlin, Robert A. ZeissAbstract:1376 The psychiatric Hospital environment plays a significant, though often underappreciated, role in patient and staff functioning. This column reviews the literature on important environmental and therapeutic issues in psychiatric Hospital Design. Research findings and clinical conjecture reported over the past 50 years indicate that intervening environmentally through clinically informed, patient-centered Design can improve functioning both among and between patients and staff. This column identifies specific best practice considerations and recommendations for Designing inpatient psychiatric facilities and may serve as a useful planning resource to those interested in adopting a patient-centered, inclusive approach to Design and treatment. (Psychiatric Services 57:1376–1378, 2006)
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Best Practices: Environmental and Therapeutic Issues in Psychiatric Hospital Design: Toward Best Practices
Psychiatric services (Washington D.C.), 2006Co-Authors: Bradley E. Karlin, Robert A. ZeissAbstract:The psychiatric Hospital environment plays a significant, though often underappreciated, role in patient and staff functioning. This column reviews the literature on important environmental and therapeutic issues in psychiatric Hospital Design. Research findings and clinical conjecture reported over the past 50 years indicate that intervening environmentally through clinically informed, patient-centered Design can improve functioning both among and between patients and staff. This column identifies specific best practice considerations and recommendations for Designing inpatient psychiatric facilities and may serve as a useful planning resource to those interested in adopting a patient-centered, inclusive approach to Design and treatment.
Susan Francis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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therapeutic landscapes in Hospital Design a qualitative assessment by staff and service users of the Design of a new mental health inpatient unit
Environment and Planning C-government and Policy, 2007Co-Authors: Sarah Curtis, Wil Gesler, Susan Francis, Kathy Fabian, Stefan PriebeAbstract:This pilot research project sought to provide a postoccupation assessment of a new mental health inpatient unit in East London, built under the Private Finance Initiative scheme. Qualitative discussion groups or unstructured interviews were used to explore the views of people who had been service users (but were currently well) and of nursing staff and consultants working in the new Hospital. The participants gave their views on the aspects of the Hospital which were beneficial or detrimental to well-being and the reasons for their views. Informants discussed Hospital Design in terms of: (1) respect and empowerment for people with mental illness; (2) security and surveillance versus freedom and openness; (3) territoriality, privacy, refuge, and social interactions; (4) homeliness and contact with nature; (5) places for expression and reaffirmation of identity, autonomy, and consumer choice; and (6) integration into sustainable communities. Themes emerging from this research were interpreted in light of id...
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therapeutic landscapes in Hospital Design a qualitative assessment by staff and service users of the Design of a new mental health inpatient unit
Environment and Planning C-government and Policy, 2007Co-Authors: Sarah Curtis, Wil Gesler, Susan Francis, Kathy Fabian, Stefan PriebeAbstract:This pilot research project sought to provide a postoccupation assessment of a new mental health inpatient unit in East London, built under the Private Finance Initiative scheme. Qualitative discussion groups or unstructured interviews were used to explore the views of people who had been service users (but were currently well) and of nursing staff and consultants working in the new Hospital. The participants gave their views on the aspects of the Hospital which were beneficial or detrimental to well-being and the reasons for their views. Informants discussed Hospital Design in terms of: (1) respect and empowerment for people with mental illness; (2) security and surveillance versus freedom and openness; (3) territoriality, privacy, refuge, and social interactions; (4) homeliness and contact with nature; (5) places for expression and reaffirmation of identity, autonomy, and consumer choice; and (6) integration into sustainable communities. Themes emerging from this research were interpreted in light of ideas from geographical research on therapeutic landscapes constituted as physical, social, and symbolic spaces, as well as research from environmental psychology. The findings have practical implications for Hospital Design and underline the need to consider empowerment of patients in decisions over Hospital Design. We note the challenges involved in determining therapeutic Hospital Design given changing models of care in psychiatry, lack of consensus over models of care, and the varying and somewhat conflicting requirements these imply for the physical, social, and symbolic attributes of Design of Hospital spaces. We also note the implications of our findings for an interpretation of therapeutic landscapes as contested spaces.
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therapy by Design evaluating the uk Hospital building program
Health & Place, 2004Co-Authors: Wil Gesler, Morag Bell, Sarah Curtis, Phil Hubbard, Susan FrancisAbstract:A renewed interest in Hospital Design in the UK, prompted by the Private Finance Initiative, provides an opportunity to consider Hospitals as 'therapeutic environments'. Noting that the therapeutic value of Hospitals is related to their physical, social and symbolic Design, this paper argues that 'expert' knowledges have encouraged the development of Hospitals that all-too-rarely provide benign settings for promoting patient recovery and healing. The recent programme of Hospital building in the UK, however, has been accompanied by a vigorous debate over what constitutes good Hospital Design, with four significant ideas emerging: Hospitals should be clinically efficient, be integrated within the community, be accessible to consumers and the public, and encourage patient and staff well-being. Suggesting that all four goals demand careful consideration of the real and imagined spatiality of Hospital environments, the paper concludes by suggesting ways that health geographers can contribute to debates surrounding PFI Hospital Design.
Sonja Chernos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Enhancing the traditional Hospital Design process: a focus on patient safety.
Joint Commission journal on quality and safety, 2004Co-Authors: John Reiling, Barbara L. Knutzen, Thomas K. Wallen, Susan Mccullough, Ric Miller, Sonja ChernosAbstract:Article-at-a-Glance Background In 2002 St. Joseph's Community Hospital (West Bend, WI), a member of SynergyHealth, brought together leaders in health care and systems engineering to develop a set of safety-driven facility Design principles that would guide the Hospital Design process. Designing for Safety Hospital leadership recognized that a cross-departmental team approach would be needed and formed the 11-member Facility Design Advisory Council, which, with departmental teams and the aid of architects, was responsible for overseeing the Design process and for ensuring that the safety considerations were met. The Design process was a team approach, with input from national experts, patients and families, Hospital staff and physicians, architects, contractors, and the community. Outcome The new facility, Designed using safety-driven Design principles, reflects many innovative Design elements, including truly standardized patient rooms, new technology to minimize falls, and patient care alcoves for every patient room. The new Hospital has been Designed with maximum adaptability and flexibility in mind, to accommodate changes and provide for future growth. The architects labeled the innovative Design The Synergy Model, to describe the process of shaping the entire building and its spaces to work efficiently as a whole for the care and safety of patients. Conclusion Construction began on the new facility in August 2003 and is expected to be completed in 2005.
Bradley E. Karlin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Environmental and Therapeutic Issues in Psychiatric Hospital Design: Toward Best Practices
Psychiatric Services, 2006Co-Authors: Bradley E. Karlin, Robert A. ZeissAbstract:1376 The psychiatric Hospital environment plays a significant, though often underappreciated, role in patient and staff functioning. This column reviews the literature on important environmental and therapeutic issues in psychiatric Hospital Design. Research findings and clinical conjecture reported over the past 50 years indicate that intervening environmentally through clinically informed, patient-centered Design can improve functioning both among and between patients and staff. This column identifies specific best practice considerations and recommendations for Designing inpatient psychiatric facilities and may serve as a useful planning resource to those interested in adopting a patient-centered, inclusive approach to Design and treatment. (Psychiatric Services 57:1376–1378, 2006)
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Best Practices: Environmental and Therapeutic Issues in Psychiatric Hospital Design: Toward Best Practices
Psychiatric services (Washington D.C.), 2006Co-Authors: Bradley E. Karlin, Robert A. ZeissAbstract:The psychiatric Hospital environment plays a significant, though often underappreciated, role in patient and staff functioning. This column reviews the literature on important environmental and therapeutic issues in psychiatric Hospital Design. Research findings and clinical conjecture reported over the past 50 years indicate that intervening environmentally through clinically informed, patient-centered Design can improve functioning both among and between patients and staff. This column identifies specific best practice considerations and recommendations for Designing inpatient psychiatric facilities and may serve as a useful planning resource to those interested in adopting a patient-centered, inclusive approach to Design and treatment.
Wil Gesler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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therapeutic landscapes in Hospital Design a qualitative assessment by staff and service users of the Design of a new mental health inpatient unit
Environment and Planning C-government and Policy, 2007Co-Authors: Sarah Curtis, Wil Gesler, Susan Francis, Kathy Fabian, Stefan PriebeAbstract:This pilot research project sought to provide a postoccupation assessment of a new mental health inpatient unit in East London, built under the Private Finance Initiative scheme. Qualitative discussion groups or unstructured interviews were used to explore the views of people who had been service users (but were currently well) and of nursing staff and consultants working in the new Hospital. The participants gave their views on the aspects of the Hospital which were beneficial or detrimental to well-being and the reasons for their views. Informants discussed Hospital Design in terms of: (1) respect and empowerment for people with mental illness; (2) security and surveillance versus freedom and openness; (3) territoriality, privacy, refuge, and social interactions; (4) homeliness and contact with nature; (5) places for expression and reaffirmation of identity, autonomy, and consumer choice; and (6) integration into sustainable communities. Themes emerging from this research were interpreted in light of id...
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therapeutic landscapes in Hospital Design a qualitative assessment by staff and service users of the Design of a new mental health inpatient unit
Environment and Planning C-government and Policy, 2007Co-Authors: Sarah Curtis, Wil Gesler, Susan Francis, Kathy Fabian, Stefan PriebeAbstract:This pilot research project sought to provide a postoccupation assessment of a new mental health inpatient unit in East London, built under the Private Finance Initiative scheme. Qualitative discussion groups or unstructured interviews were used to explore the views of people who had been service users (but were currently well) and of nursing staff and consultants working in the new Hospital. The participants gave their views on the aspects of the Hospital which were beneficial or detrimental to well-being and the reasons for their views. Informants discussed Hospital Design in terms of: (1) respect and empowerment for people with mental illness; (2) security and surveillance versus freedom and openness; (3) territoriality, privacy, refuge, and social interactions; (4) homeliness and contact with nature; (5) places for expression and reaffirmation of identity, autonomy, and consumer choice; and (6) integration into sustainable communities. Themes emerging from this research were interpreted in light of ideas from geographical research on therapeutic landscapes constituted as physical, social, and symbolic spaces, as well as research from environmental psychology. The findings have practical implications for Hospital Design and underline the need to consider empowerment of patients in decisions over Hospital Design. We note the challenges involved in determining therapeutic Hospital Design given changing models of care in psychiatry, lack of consensus over models of care, and the varying and somewhat conflicting requirements these imply for the physical, social, and symbolic attributes of Design of Hospital spaces. We also note the implications of our findings for an interpretation of therapeutic landscapes as contested spaces.
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therapy by Design evaluating the uk Hospital building program
Health & Place, 2004Co-Authors: Wil Gesler, Morag Bell, Sarah Curtis, Phil Hubbard, Susan FrancisAbstract:A renewed interest in Hospital Design in the UK, prompted by the Private Finance Initiative, provides an opportunity to consider Hospitals as 'therapeutic environments'. Noting that the therapeutic value of Hospitals is related to their physical, social and symbolic Design, this paper argues that 'expert' knowledges have encouraged the development of Hospitals that all-too-rarely provide benign settings for promoting patient recovery and healing. The recent programme of Hospital building in the UK, however, has been accompanied by a vigorous debate over what constitutes good Hospital Design, with four significant ideas emerging: Hospitals should be clinically efficient, be integrated within the community, be accessible to consumers and the public, and encourage patient and staff well-being. Suggesting that all four goals demand careful consideration of the real and imagined spatiality of Hospital environments, the paper concludes by suggesting ways that health geographers can contribute to debates surrounding PFI Hospital Design.