IN THE CORONA CRISIS, THE ARCHITECTURE OF HOSPITALS IS PUT TO THE TEST
| Are the hospitals prepared to react quickly and flexibly to the increased need for intensive care?
| What about protection against hospital-acquired infections for staff and patients in healthcare facilities and nursing homes?
| What does a stay in isolation do with the patient and what can we do to help them?
| How can modular and flexible layouts contribute to coping with future pandemics in the medium and long term?
| Is it time to consider having single rooms as standard in hospitals?
The statements and contributions listed below from ENAH partners, collaborating organizations and open sources give some answers to these and similar queations.
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ENAH advisory board statements
“Future-proof hospitals should be flexibly adaptable to emergencies like the current one.”
Christine Nickl-Weller
“A cure and care continuum should evolve that results in a sustainable, effective and comprehensive approach to public health which, ultimately, is based on healthy lifestyles.”
Cor Wagenaar
COVID-19: Database on patients treated in hospital in 15 European countries
Reinhard Busse
Contributions
Light building adaptions
Rocket adjustments of health facility design
Tom Guthknecht, ETH Zurich
Structural hygiene
Planning and design of hospitals subjected to scrutiny
Wolfgang Sunder, TU Braunschweig
Birth environment
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Giving birth in a pandemic. The role of healthcare design
Global Birth Environment Design Network
Policies
Web link
Information and facts about the corona virus and the measures taken by hospitals
German Hospital Federation (DKG)
Hospital layout
Modular, flexible, responsive
Hieronimus Nickl , Nickl & Partner Architekten
Hospital layout
When benchmarks no longer apply
Monika Purschke, Philip Eisenburger,
Semir Zubcevic
Literature review
Pandemic Urbanism: Praxis in the Time of
COVID-19
Hiba Bou Akar
Technical hygiene
Processing of hospital beds in Germany
Frank Heinze
Hospital layout
Building of the Corona treatment centre in Berlin
Heinle, Wischer und Partner