Trends in Healthcare: The State of Accessible Medical Diagnostic Equipment Standards
How can building designers and healthcare providers proactively ensure that medical diagnostic equipment is accessible to patients with disabilities?
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Trends in Healthcare: Accessible Controls for Window Treatments
Providing accessible controls for window shades and blinds at healthcare facilities gives patients and family members an active role in recovery.
Trends in Healthcare: Hospital Gardens
Designing spaces to be accessible to all is essential to ensuring that patients, visitors, and staff can benefit from the benefits a hospital garden offers.
Trends in Healthcare: Charging Stations
Whether it’s keeping family posted, getting work done, or streaming music or videos to help the time pass, the ability to stay connected and charged can relieve some of the stress that often comes with hospital visits.
Trends in Healthcare: Nurse Call Devices
Within hospitals and long-term care facilities, effective implementation of interventions and design strategies to reduce patient falls are key to increased patient safety and decreased medical costs. However, it may not be possible to eliminate patient falls altogether, so features like a properly installed nurse call system can be life changing.
Career Diaries – What’s It Like Working As an Accessibility Consultant?
Accessibility consultants work at the intersection of architecture and social justice. It’s much more than checking the boxes on accessibility requirements of laws and codes; it takes precision, dedication, and creativity to solve problems and remove physical barriers to access that have historically marginalized people with disabilities.
Innovations in Accessible Products 2025
Our accessibility consultants are constantly on the lookout for new products that will make it easier for our clients to comply with accessibility criteria while meeting their overarching design goals.
Top 10 Accessible Design Oversights: Hotels
Even when hotels are designed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), we often find these 10 accessible design mistakes.
Inclusive Design and Building Performance: An Inclusive Approach to Improving the Built Environment
What is inclusive design, and how is it different than accessibility and universal design? See examples of inclusive design in practice.