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The Garfield Health Care Innovation Center Teams Front-line Clinicians With Architects and Technologists to Mock Up New Patient Care Environments
Advance for Nurses, September 24, 2007
From prototyping to technology testing, the center brings blueprints to life so nurses, physicians, pharmacists and other hospital or clinic staff can collaborate with designers to perfect the plans for the environments they will work in every day. With 37,000 square feet to work with, the potential to experiment at the San Leandro center is virtually endless. [Read this article]
Kaiser Considers Technology to Care For Patients at Home
East Bay Business Times, August 31, 2007
Smart "Band-Aids" that monitor your blood sugar level throughout the day. Pacemakers imbedded with chips that alert your doctor if your heart rate goes out of whack. Technologies that let you talk to your physician via your home television set. Right now, they're just toys that lucky researchers think about - and sometimes get to play with - at Kaiser Permanente's year-old Sidney R. Garfield Center for Healthcare Innovation...... [Read this article]
Garfield Center Celebrates Innovation Year 1
KP-IT NewsSource, August 3, 2007
"Innovation is in our DNA," said Jennifer Ruzek, Garfield Center director, in kicking off the July 13 event. "When you bring a diverse group together and take them out of their daily environment, they really do think differently about solving problems. We have seen here, first-hand, how this process truly speeds up the pace of decision-making." [Read this article]
Garfield Center Celebrates First Year of Innovation - and Many More to Come.
KP News Center, July 19, 2007
More than 200 Kaiser Permanente employees and clinical partners gathered July 13 to celebrate the first of many years of health care excellence at Kaiser Permanente's Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center. [Read this article]
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Bright Ideas Translate Into Innovative Practice
Nurse Week, June 6, 2007
When Charles Meek, RN, arrives on the med/surg and orthopedics unit at Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center, where he is a nurse manager, he never knows quite what to expect -- but that's a good thing. Ever since the Roseville, Calif. hospital adopted the "one patient, one nurse, one innovation, one day" philosophy, change has become the rule.... [Read this article]
Where Ideas Come to Life
Inside KP: Northern California Portal, May 2007Paul Feigenbaum, MD, put on glasses, ear plugs, and gloves with weights and crawled into a hospital bed. For a few moments, those props impaired his sight, hearing, and sense of touch so he felt what it was like to be an elderly patient. The insight and empathy he and the other participants gained from the exercise could help change how KP cares for this population. Dr. Feigenbaum is part of the KP Aging Network, a group of leaders from across the program who work toward solving common issues elderly members face. [Read this article]
Engaging Nurses in Quality Improvement
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Newsroom, May 10, 2007
In January 2007 in partnership with RWJF, Ascension Health, Kaiser Permanente and the American Academy of Nursing convened a multidisciplinary group of more than 200 frontline nurses, physicians, pharmacists, architects and health care leaders. This meeting, the Nurse Workforce Environment Innovation Summit.... [Read this article]
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Kaiser Experimenting on Hospitals of the Future
San Francisco Business Times, May 4, 2007
Kaiser Permanente is testing its future in a nondescript San Leandro office park. Its Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center, named after Kaiser's founding physician, opened last summer and functions as a laboratory for experimenting with new design elements, technologies and approaches. [Read this article] Architectural Design
The Futuristic Promise of Medicine from a Distance
KP-IT NewsSource, May 4, 2007
Take a physical without going to your doctor’s office. Get medication reminders on your cell phone. Such futuristic care delivery concepts are happening now at KP. And they will form the basis of KP's primary mode of care delivery within the next eight years. The strategy and the details are being worked out by KP-IT's Innovation and Advanced Technology group and tested at the Garfield Center. [Read this article] Technology
Gettin' Geeky: Nursing Summit Checks Innovations
KP-IT NewsSource, February 16, 2007
How might changing the approach to locating supplies and equipment boost the time nurses spend on direct care? If technological innovation, nurse unit design, or workflow were to optimize routine care processes, would the quality of care improve? [Read this article] Technology
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Thin Client Tests Viability Testing
KP-IT NewsSource, February 2, 2007
“Well, it looked real good on the chalkboard.” That’s what the football coach supposedly said to his assistants every time one of his newly invented gee-whiz plays dissolved into chaos, mayhem, and loss on the field. It’s a folk tale that underscores a big issue: How do you gauge the viability of an idea before the stakes rise in the real world? [Read this article] Technology
Evidence-Based Design Shapes Healthcare Facilities Buildings
ArchiTechMag.com, January 2007
Research about what works and what doesn’t in healthcare facilities gives industry professionals a better picture of how to design for the future. Kaiser now does its internal benchmarking at the new Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center. The 30,000-square-foot warehouse space has been set up as an inpatient unit mock-up, almost like a Hollywood set. [Read this article] Architectural Design
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How Patient Care Works, Providing Nurses with the Stations They Need
Medical Construction & Design, November/December 2006 p. 59
For the past two years, researchers at Nurture by Steelcase have focused their efforts on understanding how patient care is delivered, and how to best accommodate the people delivering that care. [Read this article] Architectural Design
KP HealthConnect Summit Held on November 28
KPHC Site – In The News | Internal Media, December 2006
The hospital and outpatient settings available at the Garfield Center provide an environment where the participants can gain a better understanding of the training and support needed to assist hospital staff and clinicians before, during, and after "go-live". [Read this article]
KP HealthConnect Summit Held on November 28
KPLink e-zine, December, 2006
“Using the Garfield Innovation Center for our simulation was a powerful way to have staff 'feel' what an inpatient implementation is really like," said Carlos Miller, KP HealthConnect senior manager of learning services. "I believe we now have better understanding of the complexity of what we are working with." [Read this article]
Garfield Center Inpatient Simulation
KPLink e-zine, November, 2006
“Kaiser Permanente is planning to invest $24 billion in capital for approximately 4,000 current and upcoming facility projects between the years 2006 and 2014. This includes the opening of 15 hospitals in the next three to four years. Before the planning and design for the hospitals is finalized, National Facilities Services (NFS) wanted to take a look at clinical work spaces and how well they functioned. One area of interest is the inpatient work space, traditionally known as the nursing station.." [Read this article] Architectural Design
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How Hospital Design Saves Lives
Business Week, August 15, 2006
Design changes can cut infection rates, lower physician errors, improve staff performance, and make all the difference in delivering care. [Read this article] Architectural Design
Health Care Innovation Center Now Open
KP Link ezine, July 12, 2006
What if one of our clinicians had an idea for a better place to store medication, or an idea about better ways to communicate with one another? What if all patient rooms were visible from the nurses' station? How does room design impact patient safety? How does KP HealthConnect impact workflows? [Read this article]
Health Care Innovation Center Now Open
Inside KP: Northern California Portal, June 2006
"The most exciting aspect of the Garfield Center is that it connects the groups that need to work collaboratively to develop technologies and facilities. It's always a challenge in health care to break out of our silos and the Garfield Center provides an exciting physical space that energizes our staff to work collaboratively on innovations that provide our members with the best care," said Jennifer Ruzek, Director. [Read this article]
Managing Hospital Construction Projects
Facilitiesnet.com, July 2006
The facility in Anaheim has served its purpose so well that it is being replaced by a new and updated one, Kaiser's Garfield Center for Health Care Innovation in San Leandro, Calif. In addition to serving as a design experimentation lab, the new space will be used by medical staff members to stage mock emergencies. [Read this article] Architectural Design
Garfield Center Aims to Redefine Innovation
KP-IT NewsSource, June 30, 2006
An industrial park in the shadow of Oakland International Airport is home to Kaiser Permanente's latest medical breakthrough: the Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center. The 37,000-square-foot converted warehouse will serve as a living laboratory to test technology and non-technology ideas to keep KP on the cutting edge of health care. [Read this article] Additional Articles on HRO (High Reliability Organization): [Read this article] [Read this article] Technology, Cultural Transformation
It’s In Our Genes
KPLink e-zine – May, 2006
What is a center for innovation, exactly? In my mind, it is a place where we are free to ask the question: What if? [Read this article]
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