Pediatric Design: Smart Parent Book
- 4/26/2010
- Author: Kristine Miller
- Category: EC News Blog
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The Joint Commission and Joint Commission Resources recently co-authored with Jennifer Trachtenberg, M.D. The Smart Parent’s Guide to Getting Your Kids Through Illnesses, Accidents, and Checkups: Expert Answers to the Questions Parents Ask Most. RealAge, a health company that features interactive online health and wellness quizzes and advice, also contributed to the book. The Smart Parent’s Guide gives parents valuable health care information and reveals “insider” recommendations about how to protect their child’s health, whether in the emergency department, pediatric unit, or doctor’s office, or at the pharmacy or at home. The book was published by Free Press, a division of Simon and Schuster.
Smart parents can take care of their children’s health in yet another way—by choosing a health care facility that’s designed with kids in mind. Hospitals that take their child patients seriously do more than provide booster chairs. They start from the ground floor up, designing spaces that children find pleasing; providing comfortable, in-room sleeping accommodations for the family; and offering art, music, and animal therapy as appropriate. In case you haven’t already, check out the article "Six Facility Design Strategies Shared by Top Children’s Hospitals" in the March issue of Environment of Care® News to learn more. Just click here to get the whole story.
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