Health Care Facilities

The healthcare industry is constantly faced with a considerable amount of shifts and changes. These shifts and changes affect healthcare facility patients, employees and managers. As we progress into the future, it is important for healthcare facility managers to be …

Technology is an integral part of the health care industry. It is important that devices, such as heart rate monitors, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), security systems, etc., function properly to ensure that a hospital is running efficiently throughout the day. …

In the last few years, the number and expansiveness of construction projects in the healthcare industry have been declining. This decline is due to a large amount of uncertainty that currently surrounds the healthcare industry and the new regulations that …

The National Fire Protection Agency 101, or the Life Safety Code, has evolved over the years to best protect healthcare facility patients. The changes made to the Life Safety Code, especially those made over the last 12 years, have helped …

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, or HCAHPS, are used by hospitals to assess and measure their patient’s hospital care perspective. These assessments provide a standardized way to collect data about patient care through a variety of survey …

The planning, design and production (PDC) of a healthcare facility is an important yet extensive process that greatly affects the healthcare industry. A basic understanding of the six steps of the PDC process will give healthcare professionals the knowledge they need …

Ergonomic considerations and accommodations are one key, yet often neglected, component of worksite safety. Ergonomics, or the science of fitting workplace conditions and job demands to the worker rather than the other way around, has become more and more of …