Reiling John G, Knutzen Barbara L, Wallen Thomas K, McCullough Susan, Miller Ric, Chernos Sonja
St. Joseph's Community Hospital, West Bend, Wisconsin, USA.
Jt Comm J Qual Saf. 2004 Mar;30(3):115-24. doi: 10.1016/s1549-3741(04)30013-4.
In 2002 St. Joseph's Community Hospital (West Bend, WI), a member of SynergyHealth, brought together leaders in health care and systems engineering to develop a set of safety-driven facility design principles that would guide the hospital design process. DESIGNING FOR SAFETY: Hospital leadership recognized that a cross-departmental team approach would be needed and formed the 11-member Facility Design Advisory Council, which, with departmental teams and the aid of architects, was responsible for overseeing the design process and for ensuring that the safety considerations were met. The design process was a team approach, with input from national experts, patients and families, hospital staff and physicians, architects, contractors, and the community.
The new facility, designed using safety-driven design principles, reflects many innovative design elements, including truly standardized patient rooms, new technology to minimize falls, and patient care alcoves for every patient room. The new hospital has been designed with maximum adaptability and flexibility in mind, to accommodate changes and provide for future growth. The architects labeled the innovative design. The Synergy Model, to describe the process of shaping the entire building and its spaces to work efficiently as a whole for the care and safety of patients.
Construction began on the new facility in August 2003 and is expected to be completed in 2005.
2002年，作为协同健康集团成员的圣约瑟夫社区医院（威斯康星州韦斯特本）召集了医疗保健和系统工程领域的领导者，制定了一套以安全为导向的设施设计原则，以指导医院的设计过程。
医院领导意识到需要采用跨部门团队方法，于是成立了由11名成员组成的设施设计咨询委员会，该委员会与各部门团队并在建筑师的协助下，负责监督设计过程并确保满足安全考量。设计过程采用团队方法，有来自国家专家、患者及其家属、医院工作人员和医生、建筑师、承包商以及社区的意见。
采用以安全为导向的设计原则设计的新设施体现了许多创新设计元素，包括真正标准化的病房、将跌倒风险降至最低的新技术以及每个病房的患者护理壁龛。新医院的设计充分考虑了最大的适应性和灵活性，以适应变化并为未来发展提供空间。建筑师将这种创新设计命名为协同模式，以描述塑造整个建筑及其空间以便为患者的护理和安全高效运作的过程。
新设施的建设于2003年8月开始，预计2005年完工。
