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December 17, 2014 by
Jain Malkin in
Healthcare Design Education (Part 4 of 4) Continuing from my last post “Infection Control and Other Topics in My New Book“, space programs have been provided for each medical and dental specialty listing the types of rooms required, sizes, and other features, resulting in a calculation of total square footage for a given number of providers. These charts [...]
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October 20, 2014 by
Jain Malkin in
Healthcare Design Education
(Part 3 of 4) Continuing from my last post “Big Changes in Exam Rooms and Dental Offices“, throughout the book there is an emphasis on infection control which has become such an important issue in healthcare today. In a dental setting, both staff and patients are exposed to a wide variety of infectious microorganisms in [...]
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September 30, 2014 by
Jain Malkin in
Healthcare Design Education
(Part 2 of 4) Continuing from my last post “Trumpets Please…my new book has just been released!“, my new healthcare design book discusses big changes in exam rooms both in size and layout. Many more options, some without an exam table called “talking rooms.” Along with these changes comes the concept of team-based primary care and large [...]
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August 28, 2014 by
Jain Malkin in
Announcements
(Part 1 of 4) After 18 months of sitting at my computer 16 hours a day, what a joy it is to see the finished product. This is the new 4th edition of Medical and Dental Space Planning and a big healthcare design book it is—almost 700 pages. So much has changed in the delivery [...]
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October 25, 2013 by
Jain Malkin Inc. in
Announcements Jain Malkin, one of the world’s leading healthcare design consultants has joined the visual wonderland that is Instagram: http://instagram.com/healthcaredesign Please follow and join us in getting more evidence-based healthcare design photos (#healthcaredesign) out in the Instagram community!
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July 16, 2013 by
Jain Malkin in
Case Studies Dental Office Design Project: USC Faculty Dental Practice Location: Los Angeles, California Dental office design and hospitality design unite to create an ambience that reduces fear and anxiety in this academically-based clinic that serves students, faculty and low-income residents of the community. Dental space planning does not usually conjure an image of a healing environment, [...]
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May 8, 2013 by
Jain Malkin Inc. in
Case Studies Healthcare Design Project: Greg and Stacey Renker Pavilion Location: Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, CA Healthcare designers don’t often have a chance to pursue the design of a hospital environment reflective of a luxury hotel. Designed as an evidence-based healing environment, an emphasis on privacy, convenience and personal preference are foremost. Healthcare interior architecture rarely [...]
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February 11, 2013 by
Jain Malkin Inc. in
Announcements Google+ Jain Malkin will be speaking at the American Hospital Association’s Health Facility Planning, Design & Construction (PDC) conference on Wednesday, Feb. 27 in San Francisco on the topic “Are There Holes in your Safety Net?”. The Accountable Care Act (ACA) requires fundamental restructuring of primary care and the nation’s safety-net community health centers are a [...]
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September 18, 2012 by
Marleen Milligan in
Healthcare Design Education Bari-theatrics, “To be or not to be, that is the question”…Will testing standards for contract bariatric seating ever be developed? Asking for bariatric testing information from manufacturers producing contract seating became a “Comedy of Errors.” My experience left me confused and made me think of one of Shakespeare’s earliest farcical comedies. The topic of this [...]
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June 20, 2012 by
Jain Malkin in
Opinion The Pursuit of Vanilla in a Multi-flavored World Many new hospitals are bland, having little color and few design amenities especially in patient care areas. The lobbies are beautifully detailed but, after leaving the lobby, many buildings resemble the “pre-Planetree” 1970s and early 1980s with an institutional ambience—lots of “infinity” corridors with white walls, lay-in [...]
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