BIM Equipment Placement – What is it and why is it important? On most large healthcare design projects – and many small ones – medical equipment planners are an essential part of the design team. In addition to medical equipment planning services, Maia Consulting offers BIM equipment placement to streamline coordination and collaboration through the […]
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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 […]
Long Term Effects of COVID-19 on Healthcare Design
Daily news alerts are overtaking my phone notifications and filled to the brim with COVID-19 (coronavirus) details. It’s overwhelming to think that only a few weeks ago life was relatively uneventful. With the nationwide restrictions, school closures, and limited social interactions we enter an unknown era. We hope the temporary measures help flatten the curve, […]
Behavioral Health Design for Inpatient Rooms – Part 2
Designing Inpatient Rooms for Use in Behavioral Health During Part 1, I introduced the topic of designing inpatient environments for comorbid conditions. We discussed the importance of the observation plan in relation to design. In this section, we discuss the issues relating to medical equipment planning in behavioral health design for inpatient rooms. Wall Mounted Equipment […]
Behavioral Health Design for Inpatient Rooms – Part 1
An exploration of versatility in design During the medical equipment planning process, we are frequently encountering a new trend: the potential for one of the rooms to be designed for use in behavioral health situations. According to CDC, more than 50% of Americans will be diagnosed with a mental illness or disorder at some point […]