• Collections - Mastery Series: Designing for Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare Facilities

    The Mastery Series is an exclusive collection of in-depth courses designed to elevate your expertise and help you stay ahead in a rapidly evolving industry. With new content added every quarter, the Mastery Series ensures you’re always equipped with the latest insights, innovations, and best practices to thrive in your profession. This quarter, we focus on infection control. These three courses provide excellent guidance for architects, interior designers, and mechanical engineers. They cover advances in technology and policy, optimized building engineering systems, effective design and construction strategies, and the selection of appropriate materials and finishes. These courses were recorded at a live event on October 24, 2024, and will be available until June 30, 2025.

    This collection contains a total of 3 courses totaling approximately 3 hours


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    This course outlines four specific focus areas related to infection control, aimed at enhancing understanding of the importance of these considerations for construction projects. Hospitals utilize infection control teams to assist in creating safe, sanitary environments for providing healthcare to patients. It’s imperative to understand what these teams require to maintain this environment during new building projects and how the design and construction teams can collaborate with them to improve the overall design solutions, yielding spaces that are safer for both patients and staff.

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    The global pandemic swiftly transformed healthcare facility operations, necessitating rapid implementation of infection prevention and control (IP&C) measures. Now, more than four years later, this presentation examines the evolution of facility design in response to lessons learned. It explores which design strategies have proven effective, sustainable, or transformative in shaping best practices. Highlighted topics include recent advances in IP&C that influence strategic planning, operational efficiency, spatial dynamics, and architectural innovation. Additionally, presenters will address decision-making considerations beyond IP&C, such as cost efficiency, sustainability, and the patient, staff, and family experience. Looking ahead, the presentation also explores future design strategies leveraging advancements in science, technology, and policy.

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    The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) health system is among the nation’s top comprehensive academic health sciences centers. Infection and contamination control are critical to the hospital’s infrastructure to protect not only patients but also their providers during the delivery of care. Well-designed building engineering systems play a key role in ensuring air supply and circulation, pressurization, hazardous exhaust, and plumbing systems have all been optimized for comfort, health, and safety. MUSC worked with RMF Engineering on two recent renovation projects––the Ashley River Tower bone marrow transplant outpatient clinic and the Hollings Cancer Center chemo pharmacy––that both highlight best practices in infection and contamination control for today while preparing for the potential of tomorrow.

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