The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing the lack of flexibility in capacity and adaptability of physical design at U.S. hospitals. With little time to prepare for a new disease that has no infection control guidelines, hospital administrators have confronted rigid...
Over the past 20 years the opioid epidemic has washed over the country in waves. First came the arrival of OxyContin and the rapid spread of prescribed opioids in the late 1990s. Then came the migration from prescription pills to injected heroin. And finally, about...