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Volume 1 - Utilizing Photography in your Art Program
Undoubtly people in hospitals are anxious and spend a lot of time waiting. Artwork can provide a therapeutic distraction for patients and visitors, as well as play a major role in the first impressions at a hospital. In particular, photography and art depicting nature can be benefi cial in reducing stress, improving attitude and elevating a mood.

Volume 2 - Designing a Healing Environment
Our intention as healthcare designers is to provide an environment that supports healing - for patients, their families and caregivers, as well as staff and physicians. The use of nature in artwork to create a warm and welcoming environment comes naturally but studies prove the addition of greenery can also have a profound stress reducing effect.

Volume 3 - The ART of Wayfinding
How often do you use visual landmarks when providing directions from Point A to Point B? Whether it be the house on the corner with the tacky lawn ornaments or the sculpture in front of a city building, we commonly rely on visual cues in our daily wayfi nding.
Volume 4 - Creating a Memorable Experience
The community-level outpatient clinic provides a unique design opportunity to connect with your patients on a more friendly level than the traditional medical center. In creating this “homelike” space you are making the patients experience more like going to the doctor’s office than the hospital.
Volume 5 - Small Ways To Make A Big Impact
Recent healthcare design research charges us with a simple task; create a patient centered healing space reminiscent of the natural enviornment. Achieving the feeling of being outdoors in clinics, exam rooms and long corridors can be daunting. Doing so without a big budget construction project is beyond challenging.
Volume 6 - Reflections of Home
There is ample evidence that meaningful nature and landscape imagery reduces stress in the healthcare environment. Reduction of stress leads to an increase in healing. Designers are always inventing new ways to promote this healing. The use of photography focusing on the local landmarks familiar to the patients, visitors and staff of their facilities has become a frequent request among our clients.
Volume 7 - Safe Healing
How do you provide artwork for an area with so many special circumstances? Not only do we have to pay close attention to the content of each image placed within a Mental Health Clinic (see reverse for more information), we must also ensure that the physical application meets recent safety requirements.
Volume 8 - Portraying Gratitude
It is a constant Designer’s question, “How do I make Veterans feel welcomed and honored in our VA medical facility?” Especially because we know that there are different places they would rather be than experiencing health care issues and needs.

 

  

 
 
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