Clemson architecture program teams up with MUSC to design a better operating room

The Post & Courier
Lauren Sausser
January 30, 2018

As hospitals around the country increasingly focus on improving patient safety, a group of doctors and architects are teaming up in Charleston to design a better operating room.

“In the United States, in particular, we’ve done a lot with patient safety in the last 20 years, but we’ve never really looked at the space in which we work,” said Dr. Scott Reeves, chairman of anesthesia and perioperative medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. “We basically build the same boxes over and over again.”

MUSC doctors and Clemson University architects want to change that. The group won a four-year, $4 million grant to study the issue and identify solutions.

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