MASS Design Group brings pandemic design expertise to American hospital wards

In the mad rush to accommodate the surge of COVID-19 patients in New York City that started in March, the city's Mount Sinai hospital looked to MASS Design Group to help the facility rapidly reconfigure its existing spaces for use during the pandemic.  MASS Design Group has extensive experience working within the pandemic setting, as the group's work in Haiti, South Africa, and other international locales battling infectious disease outbreaks demonstrates. In a recent article published by The Boston Globe, Michael Murphy, founding principal and executive director of MASS Design Group, outlines design approaches focused on the potential spaces have to transmit (or prevent transmission) of deadly particles via "air, surfaces, and water."  MASS Design Group has also recently published an online PDF titled Redesigning Hospital Spaces on the Fly to Protect Healthcare Workers that offers insights into the approaches the designers took when they partnered with Ariadne Labs, a healthcare in...