Integrative space supports healing on more than the physical level, but also on the emotional, mental and spiritual levels as well. Creating a room with the focus of helping a patient feel safe and comfortable, like they might if they were home, is the aim...
When being treated in a hospital for injury or illness, we expect the utmost care, and trust the facility to bring us back to health. In a recent article in the New York Times ( “Bad Hospital Design is Making Us Sicker”), Dr. Dhruv Khullar outlines...
Infection Control in Hospitals----Not the Only Component to Healing Articles and studies speaking to the need to keep health-care associated infections (HAIs) to a minimum are being done continuously. Efforts to keep patients safe from bacteria that could come from other patients, staff, and visitors in...
From the viewpoint of Integrative Space, everything in the environment matters. Applying Feng Shui principles to even the seemingly least significant detail in a hospital or clinic setting can bring about the most significant positive response. Currently, I am involved in a hospital remodeling project in...
The design of waiting rooms is a vital point of discussion in the healthcare world. Some think waiting rooms will become a thing of the past since the patient will be able to check in with ease via a kiosk and report directly to an...
The evidence-based studies of Roger Ulrich beginning in the 80’s have proven that having a window with a pleasant view in a hospital room makes a positive difference in a patient’s outcome. When provided this connection to nature, the patient needs less medications, recovers faster, has less pain...
Currently I’m working with a chiropractor who is expanding his business and wants to build his own medical building. He doesn’t have all the land acquired; he doesn’t have a blueprint; the construction may be 2-4 years away; and he’s still determining staff needs. Oh,...
Several months ago, I wrote an article called Healing Begins in the Waiting Room, addressing the issue of what patients are experiencing when they visit a medical facility and have to spend time in a waiting room----and how to make the wait more enjoyable using...
In 2003, I was contracted as an integrative spaces specialist to be part of a team whose focus was designing and building a new hospital. All facets of the project were analyzed from an integrative/Feng Shui perspective----color, roads, office placements, landscape, entry experience, patient rooms,...
“. . . .only architecture built up out of adjectives can nourish the soul.” Christopher Day, Places of the Soul This succinct phrase by eco-architect Christopher Day sums up the essence of what an integrative space entails. It doesn’t just entail a building but the experience behind...
Integrative space supports healing on more than the physical level but also on the emotional, mental and spiritual levels as well. Creating a room with the focus of helping a patient feel safe and comfortable, like they might if they were home, is the aim...
An Integrated Space is one that is meaningful on all levels-----physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. It provides cues which can lead to positive experience, feelings and thoughts----healing included. This optimal environment is achieved through the intersection of the time-tested principles of the ancient Chinese system of...