Better Healing From Better Design: The Use Of Cultural Probes

Better Healing from Better Design Name: Course: Instructor: Date: Response to Yuhgo Yamaguchi You provide insightful ideas on how patient outcome can be improved through better architectural designs in healthcare facilities. You not only provide the ideas but also prove them using evidence from various studies, something that makes the article valid and outstanding. Among the main points you provide are that better designs lead to reduced pain among patients especially children undergoing surgery. They reduce chances of hospital-acquired diseases and the length of stay in the hospitals. Improved patient outcomes reduced the cost of health. Better hospital designs not only help the patients but the families and healthcare providers as well leading to high performance when providing the care. I agree with the interventions you mentioned throughout the article. It is true that to reduce hospital-acquired infections, ICU rooms have to be redesigned from shared to private as per the example you provided- McGill University hospitals in Canada. Garden view which is termed as ‘tree view' from one of the studies helps in reducing hospital stays. Another intervention that helps children recover faster from surgerie...