Shravan Govindaraj, Product Marketing Manager, XP Power, highlights how hospitals can reduce noise pollution in essential medical equipment.

Noise reduction “has to be more than just applying materials to spaces,” says Tina Larsen, EDAC, AIA, LEED AP, Vice President and Leader of the healthcare studio at Corgan Associates, which ...

Announcements blare from overhead speakers. Electronic devices beep. Heating and cooling systems rumble. Employees and visitors speak loudly. This sound snapshot, researchers say, comes not from a ...

While noise in a hospital may seem a simple nuisance, it can affect patients’ health and satisfaction, which in turn can impact hospitals’ reimbursement. The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare ...

July 16, 2012 — A new study has quantified how disruptive typical hospital sounds are to the sleep of patients, and shows, perhaps not surprisingly, that electronic sounds that are intentionally ...

Some inside Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children are growing restless over the noise as striking workers hit the ...

"I feel like I am in jail." This is a Kaiser Health News story. When Kea Turner’s 74-year-old grandmother checked into Virginia’s Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital with advanced lung cancer, she ...

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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Sleepless nights in one Northwest Oklahoma City neighborhood may have come to an end, at least for now. Neighbors living in the area have been wondering what’s up with all the ...

The source was actually a pill banger, used to crush medications for geriatric patients who can’t swallow whole pills. The process occurred repeatedly each shift, disrupting sleeping patients and ...

Hospital executives, healthcare system boards, and clinical staffs have never been more aware of the relationship between noise and patient wellness, says Kurt Rockstroh, FAIA, FACHA, President and ...