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Breathing Easier
Effective Air Filtration HelpsPrevent Indoor Air Quality Ills
By Dave Matela, CAFS
Did you know that the average human breathes in about 16,000 quarts of air each day? And that each quart of air we breathe has about 70,000 visible and invisible particles? Perhaps a more shocking statistic about our breathing air comes from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which notes that indoor air can be two to five times more polluted than outdoor air.
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What's New What's Different
By Joseph G. Sprague, FAIA, FACHA, FHFI
Every four years, the Facility Guidelines Institute creates a revised Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities for healthcare architects. Published by the American Institute of Architects, the guide is used by more than 40 state governments to regulate hospital licensing and construction.
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The Lakeside Addition
UMass Memorial Medical Center Establishes the Foundation for a Major Medical Academic Center
By Andre Aoun, AIA, NCARB | Photos by Richard Mandelkorn
In its June 2003 vision statement, University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care, the largest healthcare system in central and western Massachusetts, expressed its intention to make UMass Memorial Medical Center one of the top 10 academic medical centers in the United States by 2008. The spacious Lakeside expansion on the center’s University Campus has been a key element in this initiative, bringing a new caliber of healthcare to central New England by improving patient care, operational efficiency, academic initiatives, teaching and staff recruitment and retention, supported by state-of-the-art technology that accommodates future change.
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