Design Standardization in the Private Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Room

Much has been written about standardization in healthcare design. When designing a private neonatal intensive care unit room, much attention is spent on creating an ideal patient room. When this “ideal” room is populated around the unit, some of the features of the room may be compromised, and it may become challenging to incorporate completely standardized rooms across the unit. Many factors influence the design of the space, and members of the design team—caregivers, family members, architects, hospital administrators, etc—must work closely together to prioritize the goals of the patient room environment so that these goals can be maintained and standardized from room-to-room.