Designing for Health: The Role of Designers in Infection Control
from Contract Design.com
Proper design of facilities can have a strong influence on human behavior, which can have a positive impact in reducing infectious disease. Planning and choice of materials also play a role in infection control. Infection control staff are valuable team members and can be instrumental in supporting the designer throughout the planning and design process, creating environments that reduce the opportunity for transmission of infectious disease. Click to read the full article.

Care for the Caregiver
from Patient-Centered Care.org
Providing patient and family-centered care requires staff to give tremendous amounts of themselves?both physically and emotionally. Acknowledging and being responsive to the experience of staff, and the multi-faceted demands placed on them every day, is fundamental to patient-centeredness. Patient focus group comments underscore that when staff do not feel cared for and supported, when they feel stressed and burdened, these feelings are palpable to patients. Read the article.

From Illness Care to Wellness Care from Contract Design.com
Today’s seniors are independent, involved, and connected to the world. They have home gyms or health club memberships, visit salons, and embrace spa therapies. To attract these individuals and remain competitive, it is imperative that senior facilities adopt wellness more comprehensively. Click to read more.

Hospital Systems Turn to Social Media to Manage Brands
from the Washington Business Journal.com
Using social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, as well as their traditional websites, Inova and other hospital chains in the Washington region are rethinking the way they communicate with the public. Read the article.

Employers Increased Wellness Incentives Last Year
from the Wall Street Journal.com
Employers are spending more on gift cards, contributions to health savings accounts and other incentives to persuade workers to take part in health-improvement programs, a new survey finds. Read more.