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Sound Control for Improved Outcomes in Healthcare Settings
Sound Control forImproved Outcomes inHealthcare SettingsAnjali Joseph, , Director of Research, The Center for Health DesignRoger Ulrich, , Professor, Center for HealthSystems and Design, Texas A&M UniversityThis paper was funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Paper #4 January 2007 The Center for Health Designis a nonprofit research and advocacy organ-ization whose mission is to transform Healthcare Settings into healing environments that improve Outcomes through the creative use of evidence-based design. We envision a future where healing environments are recog-nized as a vital part of therapeutic treatment and where the design ofhealthcare Settings contributes to health and does not add to the burdenof Robert Wood Johnson Foundationfocuses on the pressing health andhealthcare issues facing our country.
Noise levels can be effectively reduced by providing single-patient bed-rooms, installing high-performance sound-absorbing acoustical ceiling tiles, and removing or reducing loud noise sources on hospital units. Also, acoustical ceiling tiles improve speech intelligibility by reduc-
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