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Healing environment, for healthcare buildings describes a physical setting and organizational culture that supports patients and families through the stresses imposed by illness, hospitalization, medical visits, the process of healing, and sometimes, bereavement. The concept implies that the physical healthcare environment can make a difference ...
Thomas Story Kirkbride, creator of the Kirkbride Plan. The establishment of state mental hospitals in the U.S. is partly due to reformer Dorothea Dix, who testified to the New Jersey legislature in 1844, vividly describing the state's treatment of lunatics; they were being housed in county jails, private homes, and the basements of public buildings.
The AHTA defines a healing garden as "plant dominated environments including green plants, flowers, water, and other aspects of nature. They are generally associated with hospitals and other healthcare settings, designated as healing gardens by the facility, accessible to all, and designed to have beneficial effects on most users."
Healthy building refers to an emerging area of interest that supports the physical, psychological, and social health and well-being of people in buildings and the built environment. [1] Buildings can be key promoters of health and well-being since most people spend a majority of their time indoors. [ 2 ]
Oregon Health & Science University's (OHSU) Center for Health & Healing is a 412,000-square-foot (38,300 m 2) medical building in the South Waterfront district of Portland, Oregon. [1] It is connected to the main OHSU campus on Marquam hill by the Portland Aerial Tram .
“Comes up on you pretty fast.” To the left was a series of small brick cottages where the residents lived. The road ended at the main building, which housed the detox wing, communal rooms and administrative offices. Behind the building, a few addicts stood on a patio hunched in the cold, smoking cigarettes.
The North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) is a medical facility located on a 32-acre site off of Highway 17 in North Bay, Ontario. [1] This Northern Ontario hospital consists of 2 main buildings which cover 70,171 m 2 of the site. [2]
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.