1st Edition
An Introduction to Inclusive Healthcare Design
An Introduction to Inclusive Healthcare Design is a comprehensive guide to the design and facilitation of safe, healthy, equitable, and inclusive healthcare settings across a variety of scales. The book informs healthcare professionals, healthcare administrators, planners, designers in the healthcare sector, design students, and faculty about best practices and considerations for inclusive design.
The primary theme for the book is design for all – considering the design of healthcare spaces through the lenses of inclusivity and social equity. Part 1 presents the reader with an overview of the variety of locations and types of healthcare settings. Part 2 provides a comprehensive overview of the principles of equitable and inclusive healthcare design and considers how these principles can be applied to the range of settings laid out in Part 1. The authors consider inclusivity-supportive infrastructure in primary and ancillary spaces within healthcare settings. Part 3 envisions the future of inclusive healthcare design, considering the integration of virtual reality and artificial intelligence, as well as addressing the ever more relevant issue of healthcare provision in settings at risk of natural disasters.
Part 1: Overview of the Variety of Scales, Locations, and Types of Healthcare Settings
1. Regional Healthcare Systems
GAROLD HAMILTON
2. Health Sciences Centers and Academic Medical Centers
MARIANNE GRAFFAM
3. Healthcare in Hospitals
RONNIE URSIN
4. Neighborhood, Ambulatory Settings, Birthing Centers, and Mobile Healthcare Settings and Units
JESSICA McCARTHY
5. Healthcare in the Home
JUSTIN FONTENOT
Part 2: General Principles for the Design of Equitable, Inclusive Healthcare Settings and Innovations in the Design of Healthcare Spaces
6. Considerations for the Design of Healthcare Facilities Across Multiple Scales: Part I: Healthcare Environmental Control Systems and Safety
DENISE M. LINTON AND KIWANA T. McCLUNG
7. Considerations for the Design of Healthcare Facilities Across Multiple Scales: Part II: The Healthcare Experience
KRISTI L. ANDERSON
8. Planning and Design Principles for Healthcare Settings at the Regional, City or Town, and Neighborhood Scales
ANGELA A. APPIAH AND BEVERLY ANN COLLINS
9. The Design of Healthcare Centers/Hospital and Healthcare Campuses
TWILA STERLING-GUILLORY AND VERONICA D. WOODARD
10. Considerations for Ambulatory Settings
HARMONY ROCHON AND CHRISTIAN WILD
11. Patient Room Considerations for Different Healthcare Needs and Scales
KENESHIA BRYANT-MOORE
12. The Design of Residential Spaces for Healthcare
KIWANA T. McCLUNG
Part 3: The Future of Healthcare and Alternative Healthcare Situations
13. Renewable Energy in Healthcare and Energy Systems for Resilience
KARI J. SMITH
14. Innovations in Healthcare Design: Device, Delivery, and System
ELHAM MORSHEDZADEH
Biography
Denise M. Linton is a retired tenured professor and professorship holder from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is a former researcher, an international speaker, an author, and an active Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
Kiwana T. McClung is a professor in the School of Architecture & Design and serves as Chief Inclusion Officer at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
