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🌿 The Healing Power of Nature: Why Biophilic Design is Transforming Hospitals 🏥
Did you know the architecture of a hospital can directly influence patient recovery? Implementing biophilic design—an approach that integrates natural elements into built environments—is creating sustainable therapeutic environments in healthcare settings.
For Patients, the benefits are profound:
• Biophilic design in hospitals has been shown to reduce hospitalization time, lower patient mortality, and support faster recovery.
• Exposure to plants, natural light, or views of nature helps alleviate stress, anxiety, and pain. Patients recovering from surgery who had views of a natural setting, or plants in their rooms, had shorter postoperative stays and required fewer potent analgesics.
• The presence of plants and flowers enhanced physiological responses, evidenced by lower systolic blood pressure and heart rate. Patients reported lower ratings of pain, anxiety, and fatigue.
• Even in stressful areas like waiting rooms, exposure to real plants or posters of plants significantly reduced experienced stress levels among patients, an effect partially mediated by the perceived attractiveness of the room.
For Care Providers, the positive impacts are crucial:
• Biophilic design positively influences the psychological and physiological responses of staff.
• Care providers in biophilic environments experience less job stress and burnout, and higher job satisfaction.
• The overall goal is to create an environment that supports clinical excellence and produces measurable positive effects on staff effectiveness.
Biophilic design is considered a noninvasive, inexpensive, and effective complementary medicine for surgical patients. However, it is important to note that due to potential infection risks from water/soil, cut flowers and potted plants should generally be avoided in rooms of severely immunocompromised and intensive care unit patients.
This movement is driven by Evidence-Based Design (EBD), which constructs physical environments based on scientific research to achieve the best possible outcomes in health and productivity.
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