HEALTHCARE DESIGN MAGAZINE: ‘No Hidden Patient’ Patient-Focused, Nurse-Friendly Hospital Raises the Bar
by Jeff Hardy and Ron Lustig, AIA
Illustrations by Earl Swensson Associates, Inc.
July, 2006
Three major patient care trends have crept upon general acute care hospitals and influenced their operations, which serve patients and caregivers in an ever-more-restricted payment environment….
HEALTHCARE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT MAGAZINE: Patient Administration: The One-Stop Patient Processing Department
by Jeff Hardy
December, 1986
Patient Administration is the departmental consolidation of patient accounting, registration, admitting, medical records, and other patient-related clerical activities in the hospital or ambulatory clinic…
PATIENT SAFETY & QUALITY HEALTHCARE MAGAZINE: Facility Design: No Hidden Patient
By Jeff Hardy
October, 2006
Designing a new hospital or medical center around patent safety priciples is the most important challenge facing facility planners and architects today…
HEALTHCARE ADVISORY BOARD: Million Dollar Cost Savings Ideas–Eighteen Tactics for Reducing Hospital Labor Costs
By HCAB Editorial Staff
June, 2008
Hospital Merges Separate Inpatient Admission, Outpatient Registration Departments, Capitalizes on Similarity of Skill Requirements, Compatibility of Work Distribution…
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR RESPIRATORY CARE: The System-Based Approach to Health Care Restructuring
by Jeff Hardy
April, 1994
XYDRA [Jeff’s corporation] was formed after Kaiser Foundation International folded up once their primary client, Kaiser Engineers, was sold. I was a senior administrator and consultant to Kaiser Foundation International, and my wife and I traveled all over the world designing hospitals from an operations standpoint…
HEALTH FACILITIES MANAGEMENT: Hospitals Weigh Benefits of ‘No Hidden Patient’ Design [Teacher’s Comment]
by Editorial Staff
June, 2007
Designing hospitals so that nurses can easily see patients seems like a straightforward patient safety goal that would apply to any new hospital construction…
MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL: Novato Man Creates High-Tech Hospitals
by Editorial Staff
Jeff Hardy points to a hammock swung between thick limbs of a live oak tree nestled in the corner of his two-acre lot, next to a flowing creek. “That is my conference center”…
TRUSTEE MAGAZINE: No Hidden Patient: A Safety Design Model
By Editorial Staff
February, 2007
The national spotlight is now shining on the unacceptably high number of hospital deaths caused by clinical and other patient safety errors…