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    Design Framework for Health Facilities Alan Ricks and Michael Murphy A tragic example of poor health facility architecture occurred in 2005, when Extremely Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) was discovered in a hospital in Tugela Ferry, South Africa. Of the 53 original cases of XDR TB, none survived. 67 percent of those infected had been recently hospitalized at the Tugela Ferry clinic and at closer inspection it became clear that the hospital’s poor design had helped to transmit this airborne

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    Design Framework for Health Facilities

    Alan Ricks and Michael Murphy


    MASS Design Group

    A tragic example of poor health facility architecture occurred in 2005, when


    Extremely Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) was discovered in a
    hospital in Tugela Ferry, South Africa. Of the 53 original cases of XDR TB,
    none survived. 67 percent of those infected had been recently hospitalized
    at the Tugela Ferry clinic and at closer inspection it became clear that the
    hospital’s poor design had helped to transmit this airborne disease.

    The Design Framework for Health Facilities is an on-line tool designed to


    gather resources from a cross-disciplinary field of problems solvers and
    confront this crisis of inappropriate health facility design. Developed as an
    interactive program, the Framework will be a resource for architects and
    health care providers to better understand and develop strategies to resist
    tragedies like that in Tegula Ferry and to aid in the creation of contextually
    relevant facilities in resource constrained settings.

    The framework, developed with the support from United States Agency for
    International Development (USAID), World Health Organization (WHO),
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and KNCV
    Tuberculosis Foundation, will also be a forum for medical workers to learn
    from a forum of architects, planners, doctors, nurses, patients, policy
    makers, and epidemiologists. This could have potentially profound effects
    on facility problem solving and ultimately help reduce the transmission of
    diseases. Included in this submission is a video file showing a draft walk
    through of the website interface.

    Download copies of COINs 2009 research and industry papers at


    ScienceDirect.

    Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/59087-2010-999979995-
    2182758

    1
    Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 2, Issue 4, The 1st
    Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference - COINs2009. Edited by
    Kenneth Riopelle, Peter Gloor, Christine Miller and Julia Gluesing.

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    The COINs 2010 conference, Oct. 7–9, 2010, is presented by I-Open and
    the COINs Collaborative, an initiative of the Savannah College of Art and
    Design, Wayne State University College of Engineering Department of
    Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and the Massachusetts Institute
    of Technology Center for Collective Intelligence. The collaborative builds
    open knowledge networks to advance the emerging science of
    collaboration for research and industry competitive advantage. Hosted by
    SCAD. For more information about the COINs 2010 conference, visit
    www.coins2010.com.

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