No Hidden Patient Home

"NO Hidden Patient" is a Hospital Design Mandate:
"There will be NO Hidden Patients anywhere in the Hospital"

From a mother in Georgia:
"Today would have been my daughter's sixteenth birthday, but they left her alone after giving her lunch. She choked on her food and died in a room where no one could see her sometime before a nurse came by to pick up her tray..."

CLICK the buttons on the LEFT to see:

	"Hidden patient" incidents reported to us by nurses, patient families, ..... physicians, among others; A 3-minute digivideo by Dr. Larry Bedard, twice past president of the .....American College of Emergency Physicians;
	An actual State Department of Health Services Report that shows ....what happened to one hidden patient;
	A 3-minute digivideo by Jeff Hardy telling the story of how "NO Hidden ....Patient" became his cause célèbre; and,
	"NO Hidden Patient" articles by or about Jeff Hardy in American ....Hospital Association magazines, Healthcare Design Magazine ....and Patient Safety and Quality Review

"NO Hidden Patient"
means that
ALL hospitalized patients are
immediately visible, accessible and touchable
by trained medical and clinical staff

"NO Hidden Patient"
means that
"Patient Safety
supercedes Patient Privacy"....
No Compromises

"NO Hidden Patient"
means that
The "Nursing-Focused" work areas are designed for maximum nursing communication and physical comfort

"NO Hidden Patient" means:
Maximum Patient Safety where
NO Patient is Hidden
Like this one

Note: For privacy, confidentiality and respect, patient room curtains
are drawn and all staff are not facing the camera

"NO Hidden Patient" means:
No more corridor-based patient care units where

MOST Patients are Hidden!
Like this one

Note: For privacy, confidentiality and respect we have smudged
out any and all recognizable people and signage

NOTE: * Jeff Hardy has no financial, contractural, business, partnership or joint venture relationships with any architectural firm, contractor, designer or any firm that would place him in a direct or indirect conflict of interest position

Facility Design: "NO Hidden Patient"©
by Jeff Hardy
Patient Safety and Quality Review Magazine
September 2006
Read the article in .pdf

"NO Hidden Patient"© a Safety Design Model
by Jeff Hardy
Trustee Magazine
February 2007
Read the article in .pdf

"NO Hidden Patient"©
Designing Hospitals for Today's More Critical Patients
by Jeff Hardy
HealthCare Design Magazine
September 2006
Read the article

"Hospitals Weigh Benefits of 'NO Hidden Patient Design
Staff Reporter for
Health Facilities management Magazine
July, 2007
Read the article

The sad origin of "NO Hidden Patient"

News article in Marin Independent Journal Newspaper:
"Bad care blamed in man's death at Novato Hospital"
Read the article

Follow-on Opinion Article by Jeff Hardy in the Novato Advance:
"Novato Hospital Man's Death Not in Vain"
Read the article

Read the State of California Department of Health Report of the Novato Man's death

Disclaimer: To the best of our knowledge there are no reliable statistics that identify the number of patients who have died or have been harmed due to the bricks and mortar facility design of a hospital. All statistics from medical errors and patient safety failures have been extracted from coded data that has been compiled following patient discharge or death. The code books do not include a code for "death because the nurse couldn't reach the patient fast enough because the patient was at the far end of a hallway hidden from view..." or, "death caused because the patient fell out of bed before anyone could get to him fast enough..." and so on. These are facility design errors that are not the fault of the medical staff, the clinical nursing staff or the ancillary caregiving staff.

Because we do not have any reliable statistics at this time only anecdotes, experiences and comments will be documented on this site. We want to hear and share the stories of how hospitalized patient's lives have been threatened due to facility design.