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The Green Hospital
We've been looking into Green Health for a while now, so it's nice to see this Boston Globe item on an experimental design for the green hospital room. Designed to be both sustainable and cost-effective, the hospital room features:
Low flow faucets. Flooring made with renewable materials. Non-toxic items make up the ceiling, bed and walls. There is even a balcony to connect to nature because research shows it can help with healing.
Anshen + Allen, International Facility Management Association designed the facility. In addition to building the room to be sustainable, they also built additional space to make the room accessible for patient families and friendlier to try to help patients feel better.