Healthcare design and planning for children’s healing environments
By Andrea Hyde, AAHID, MDCID, Healthcare Design and Planning Consultant, USA
IN SHORT
■ Children have unique needs and should be treated in a facility designed with those needs in mind, not adapted from the needs of adult patients
■ Facility planners in the Middle East need to look at creating paediatric facilities as a matter of urgency to keep up with the young population
says that his “heart hurts”... What do you do? Of course you rush him to the closest best
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general hospital emergency room… but is your child in the best hands in an acute care facility designed and operating to serve mostly adults, cared for by doctors trained and used to serving mostly adults? The answer is... Probably not. This what many paediatric care professionals and the families they care for are saying. For this reason, many general care
physicians often refer chronic and acute care needs paediatric patients to paediatric specialty hospitals and outpatient care centres once their young patient’s immediate critical issues are stabilized. It seems that in the care for injured, critically and chronically ill
t’s 10 o’clock at night. Your 6-year old son has an unusually high fever. He also is having trouble breathing, his pulse is irregular and he
children... One size simply does not fit all... One of my favourite paediatric clients,
Dr. Gerald Loughlin, a world renowned authority on paediatric pulmonology, currently Paediatrician-in-Chief at Medicine at Weill Cornell Children’s Hospital of NewYork- Presbyterian who has also worked in Qatar, put it bluntly by saying during a project planning meeting that “a hospital designed and built for adults doesn’t work for children at all!” Under his direction, Weill Cornell
Children’s Hospital recently completely renovated their paediatric facility, because he felt the old facility did not meet the unique needs of the children patients, the staff who care for them and their families. He now calls his facility a “paediatric hospital within a hospital” as if it was a separate building altogether from the hospital, and in function
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