Nursing homes have long been seen as grim and sterile, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, they’ve also been fatal. While elderly people and those with preexisting conditions are high-risk populations, ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s not a group you’d expect to find working together, but some of the state’s top health care professionals and designers are searching for solutions to the coronavirus crisis in ...

Over 40 percent of American deaths attributed to COVID-19 have been nursing home residents. Outdated nursing home designs contributed to the scale of this tragedy in Connecticut. Many design changes ...

The architects constructed the prefab building’s wooden frame with cross-laminated timber and wooden beams. Untreated Austrian larch clads the exterior facade to give the nursing home a warm and ...

In the 1960s, a group of surgeons and anesthesiologists in Arizona came up with a revolutionary concept that would forever change the face of medicine: Perform a surgery that administered general ...

As hospitals become increasingly willing to listen to nurses' opinions in healthcare facility design, a book coming out this fall will help guide nurses through the redesign process, Healthcare Design ...

After long mimicking the hospitality industry’s grand lobbies and communal spaces, long-term care designers are shifting to a “less is more” strategy. “The pandemic highlighted that the same ...

In recent years, advances in information technology have enabled nurses to move away from traditional centralized paper-charting stations to smaller decentralized stations and charting substations ...