Patient Centered Care

Environment of Care

• Private patient rooms enhance infection control.
• Automatic hand-washing and toilet-flushing reduces the spread of infection.
• Special flooring reduces patient falls, contains microbiologic agents to reduce the spread of infection, and is more comfortable for staff to stand and walk on.
• Identically designed and oriented trauma and operating rooms reduce potential confusion during procedures or emergencies.
• Additional handrails and thoughtful design of bathrooms in patient rooms reduce confusion and falls and allow more family participation in a patient’s care.

Safer Medication Administration

• The electronic medical record (EMR) and computerized physician order entry reduce medication administration errors.
• Automatic medication dispensing devices also reduce medication errors.
• Medication scanning (bar-coding) is the final medication safety step included in the process design of the new facility.