Today, the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa is turning attention to the strategies hospitals use to contain infectious diseases. How do emergency departments serve and treat highly contagious ...

Improving both throughput and the physical environment in the Emergency Department (ED) is a top priority for many hospital administrators and facility managers. The ED (on a hospital campus or ...

Increased patient flows are forcing changes in the design of hospital emergency departments, many of which have been stretched to capacity. Nationwide, there was an increase of nearly 3 million visits ...

The era of unbearably long waits in cramped, impersonal emergency rooms may be drawing to a close. In response to the far-reaching requirements of the Affordable Care Act, cutthroat competition from a ...

December 9, 2008 — Safety improvements in emergency department (ED) design and management are needed, according to a survey of emergency department clinicians reported in the December 5 issue of the ...

Texas A&M Architecture For Health is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. When Dr. Denis Pauze, interim chair of the Department of ...

Many hospitals are expanding and renovating their emergency departments to accommodate increased patient volume, update old facilities and facilitate a smooth patient flow. Christine Gamlen, RN, MSN, ...

One of the biggest headaches for any security manager in the healthcare environment is dealing with risks associated with their emergency departments. Sitting in a hospital emergency room is an ...

Thomasville, NC -- When you have an emergency, you want care immediately, but hospital ER's are overcrowded. Even the doctors say it's their top concern. Here in the Triad, one hospital is trying to ...