Infection Prevention and Control Today I attended an NIHD webinar entitled “Infection Control in Healthcare Facilities,” presented by Tarkett. The presentation focused on educating the audience about infection prevention in healthcare design. The presenter also reviewed some of the methods hospitals use to prevent the spread of hospital associated infections (HAI’s). But the heart of […]
The Story of Maia Consulting
Melody Vandivere, President and Founder of Maia Consulting, writes about how she grew her brainchild into reality. Read where it all started and where we are going.
Thoughtful Medical Equipment Planning Requires Empathy
A few weeks ago, our team started a quarterly book study, this time for the book “Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy” by Dev Patnaik. As we read, the team started discussing how empathy applies in medical equipment planning. Our stated mission is “To enhance the quality of healthcare design […]
Making It Work From Home (With Everyone Home)
Making It Work From Home – With Everyone Home As a virtual company, our team has always worked from home (and always will). We already had the tools we needed to work remotely. However, when “stay-at-home” orders were issued in each of our home states, our children came home from school and it changed the […]
Flexibility in Healthcare Design: A Medical Equipment Planning Consultant’s Perspective
On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of attending the AIA Colorado Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH/C) monthly meeting, where Sheila Ruder from HKS Denver gave a fascinating presentation on flexibility in healthcare design. It was based on a study by Cadre Research, which focused on flexibility in the outpatient setting. This study breaks down […]