Earlier this summer, the North Ottawa Community Hospital’s newly renovated and expanded Emergency Department opened its doors for its first patient. That moment represented hundreds of hours of work between Enviah and North Ottawa and signaled the end of phase one of the renovation and expansion project.
Lorissa MacAllister, PhD, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, EDAC, has won the prestigious New Investigator Research Award from the Center for Health Design’s Research Coalition. Her research project, “Improving Patient Satisfaction and Experience through Supportive Design,” builds on her dissertation, where she discovered that design factors such as room layout predict patient perceptions of physicians and nurses.
Designing a new building can take months. Designing a new care model takes years. By leveraging a new building program as a catalyst for cultural transformation, North Ottawa Community Hospital has created a rallying point for cultural change within the organization.
Tuesday, August 18th was a proud day for North Ottawa Community Hospital (NOCH) as they broke ground on the expansion and renovation of their new Emergency Department. This project aims to not only design a new space, but to create an entirely new approach to care that is largely focused on community health and awareness.
It’s that time of year again, when everybody sets a bunch of goals that will likely be broken or forgotten before the month is out. New Year’s Resolutions are written with the best of intentions but, many times, good intentions aren’t enough to actually bring on positive change. However, science has shown us that there are a few research-backed ways you can make your resolutions stick.
Scent. We are surrounded by it and yet often we don’t even register it. But, our experience of smell is deeply linked to memory and emotion and can be a powerful mental tool. Smells can support a sense of calm, relaxation, or alertness.
