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* 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
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"NO Hidden Patient"© a Safety Design Model
by Jeff Hardy
Trustee Magazine
February 2007
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"NO Hidden Patient"©
Designing Hospitals for Today's More Critical Patients
by Jeff Hardy
HealthCare Design Magazine
September 2006
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"Hospitals Weigh Benefits of 'NO Hidden Patient Design
Staff Reporter for
Health Facilities management Magazine
July, 2007
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The sad origin of "NO Hidden Patient"

News article in Marin Independent Journal Newspaper:
"Bad care blamed in man's death at Novato Hospital"
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Follow-on Opinion Article by Jeff Hardy in the Novato Advance:
"Novato Hospital Man's Death Not in Vain"
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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.