For healthcare administrators, nurses, clinicians, and design professionals, McCullough, a nurse, healthcare consultant, and former hospital administrator, compiles nine chapters that describe evidence-based healthcare facility design meant to support quality care and reduce costs. Hospital administrators, consultants, and health care design and planning professionals from the US outline how to work with design firms, the importance of aesthetics, the impact of healing environments on patients, design for family-centered care, benchmarking, efficiency, staff workflow, and process improvement, sustainability and green practices, and transitioning from an old to a new environment. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)