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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

This article presents a systematic review of the US literature on factors influencing the decision to visit the emergency department for nonurgent conditions. We conducted a systematic literature ...

When Dr. Mark Laperouse and his team at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center sat down to make plans for a renovation for the emergency department, they did not expect to turn to 16 LSU ...