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Fix Room 16! Designing Healthcare Facilities to be More Resilient & Equitable
Fix Room 16! Designing Healthcare Facilities to be More Resilient & Equitable
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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
May 28, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
As cases of COVID-19 spike, hospitals are simply running out of space and beds for people who need them. This is one of the main reasons we’re quarantined, not just to keep ourselves safe from the virus but also to “flatten the curve,” and help our hospitals keep up with a growing number of cases. On this episode we talk about how hospitals are designing solutions for surge capacity and what lessons there are for the future of hospital architecture. Those lessons could be very important as we may see new spikes in COVID-19 and as we must adapt facilities to be equitable for all patients, healthcare workers, and staff. We’re joined by Dr. Diana Anderson, a doctor architect, or Dochitect, currently a geriatric medicine fellow at the University of California, San Francisco; and Dr. Esther Choo, she’s an emergency medicine physician and health services researcher based in Portland, Oregon at Oregon Health & Science University, and she’s the chief medical advisor for a startup called Jupe, which is creating pop-up medical facilities. Plus our weekly dose of good design.
For links to resources we discuss on this episode, visit our show page:
https://designmuseumfoundation.org/006-fix-room-16/
For links to resources we discuss on this episode, visit our show page:
https://designmuseumfoundation.org/006-fix-room-16/
Released:
May 28, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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