Safe by Design: Designing Safety in Health Care Facilities, Processes, and Culture

This book is a handy reference devoted exclusively to helping you design safety into your health care facility, both for new facilities and renovations. You will: discover the value of involving nurses, physicians, medical directors, patients, and others during the design development stage; read about the experiences of health care organizations that have succeeded in designing and constructing safe environments; learn the latest design trends and what they can do for patient safety in health care environments; and, gain cutting-edge information from an internationally recognized expert featured in "The Wall Street Journal".