North Carolina Healthcare Engineers Association a reference website for North Carolina healthcare engineering guidelines
American Society for Healthcare Engineering - a reference website for healthcare
Green Guide for Health Care™—A best practices guide for healthy and sustainable building design, construction, and operations for the healthcare industry
How Hospital Design Saves Lives - Design changes can cut infection rates, lower physician errors, improve staff performance, and make all the difference in delivering care. Business Week, August, 2006.
Center for Health Design - The Center for Health Design supports healthcare and design professionals all over the world in their quest to improve the quality of healthcare through evidence-based building design.
American Hospital Association—Information generally focused on financial and organizational issues, but includes good data on health care statistics and other resourcesHow Hospital Design Saves Lives - Design changes can cut infection rates, lower physician errors, improve staff performance, and make all the difference in delivering care. Business Week, August, 2006.
Center for Health Design - The Center for Health Design supports healthcare and design professionals all over the world in their quest to improve the quality of healthcare through evidence-based building design.
VA Office of Facilities Management Technical Information Library—Includes manuals, guides, and other standards covering all aspects of health care facility design
The Center for Health Design—An extensive site focusing on health care facility design.
Publications
Architectural Record—Monthly journal with a building types study section focusing on health care design every year or so. Online archives include many more projects than those that appear in the printed magazine.
Building Type Basics for Healthcare Facilities
. ed. Stephen A. Kliment. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000.
Design That Cares: Planning Health Facilities for Patients and Visitors, 2nd ed. by Janet R. Carpman, Myron A. Grant and Deborah A. Simmons. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001.
Guidelines for the Design and Construction of Hospitals and Health Care Facilities by AIA Academy of Architecture for Health, Washington, DC: The American Institute of Architects, 2001.
Healthcare Architecture in an Era of Radical Transformations by Stephen Verderber and David Fine. Yale University Press, 2000.
Healthcare Design—A quarterly magazine with design articles and presentations of recent projects
Health Facilities Review, 1992-1993 and subsequent issues by AIA Academy of Architecture for Health. Washington DC: AIA Press.
Hospitals and Health Networks—A monthly journal of the American Hospital Association. Includes occasional articles on construction.
Innovations in Healthcare Design: Selected Presentations from the First Five Symposia on Healthcare Design ed. Sara Marberry. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1995.
Journal of Healthcare Design—Published from 1988-1998, contains presentations at the annual symposium on Health Care Design.
Modern Healthcare—A weekly journal for health care executives with frequent articles on design and construction and an annual design awards program. Online articles from 1994.
Performance Failures in Health Care Facilities. Preliminary Report by Earle Kennett. Washington, DC: AIA/ACSA Council on Architectural Research, 1988.
Sustainable Federal Facilities: A Guide to Integrating Value Engineering, Life-cycle Costing, and Sustainable Development by the Federal Facilities Council. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001.
