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Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design

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by Richard L. Miller and Earl S. Swensson

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword by William H. Frist, M.D.

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Principles: New Paradigms for a New Century

Chapter 2. The Traditional Hospital: A Warehouse for the Sick

Chapter 3. New Markets, New Design Principles

Chapter 4. Making Yesterdayís Hospitals Work Today

Chapter 5. The Emergency Unit

Chapter 6. Diagnostic Imaging

Chapter 7. Surgery Facilities

Chapter 8. Critical Care

Chapter 9. The Patient Care Unit

Chapter 10. Ambulatory Care Design, Professional Offices, and Bedless Hospitals

Chapter 11. Women's Health Facilities and Pediatrics

Chapter 12. Design for the Elderly: Subacute and Long-term Care

Chapter 13. Trends in a New Century

Bibliography

Index


About the Authors
Richard L. Miller, FAIA, is a veteran architect, lecturer, author, and President of Earl Swensson Associates.
Earl S. Swensson, FAIA, is founder of Earl Swensson Associates (ESA), an architectural and interior design firm in Nashville.

ISBN 0-393-73032-7 / June 2002 / 300 color illustrations / cloth / 384 pages

Also by the authors:
New Directions in Hospital and Healthcare Design