Clemson A+H Alumni Initiative
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Wellness District Analysis

Boone, North Carolina is growing in population and Appalachian State University, the area’s largest university, is building an academic building adjacent to Watauga Medical Center, the area’s largest hospital. In response, the Town of Boone is proposing an area surrounding the hospital as a new zoning designation called the Wellness District. While the town begins its planning, first-year students from Clemson University’s Architecture + Health studio were able ...

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Ambulatory Surgery Center Project

The Fall semester 2016 project in the first year student’s Architecture + Health studio was for a 100,000 + square foot Ambulatory Services Campus Masterplan on the Medical University of South Carolina’s (MUSC) new Ambulatory Campus in the West Ashley area of Charleston, South Carolina. The first Phase Design Project is a 40,000 square foot Orthopedic Ambulatory Surgery Center for MUSC’s Musculoskeletal Institute. The Ambulatory Surgery Center is planned to ...

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Realizing Improved Patient Care Through Human-centered Design In the Operating Room

Two to five percent of all patients who undergo an operation will develop a surgical site infection leading to significant mortality and morbidity. The incidence of adverse events such as surgical site infections and surgical errors are an immense problem in the OR due to the highly vulnerable state of the patient and the complex interactions required between providers of different disciplines. Distractions and interruptions are major causes of medical errors ...

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Ambulatory Care for the Underserved

The collective efforts of this NCARB funded project explored how to advance the state-of-the-art in rural ambulatory healthcare facility design through a profession-academia-industry collaboration. Healthcare is a significant segment of our economy, currently at 17-19% of our GDP. The US Census Bureau estimates construction expenditures in healthcare at around $40,000,000 annually making it a significant market for architectural practice. Simultaneously, ...

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