Healthcare facility planning often focuses on programming, operations and patient safety as planners benchmark metrics to improve workflows and clinical outcomes. Rarely do patients’ emotions enter the planning equation. Yet a growing emphasis on wellness and the patient experience is adding new dimensions to the planning process as research links design to emotional well-being and clinical outcomes. Read More …
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Interior Essentials for Creating Healthcare Spaces in Harmony With Occupants
Healthcare systems are focusing on the “best patient experience” as one of their top priorities when designing facilities. This focus on the patient is applied in healthcare environments in order to satisfy the needs of patients away from the comfort and convenience of their own homes, and to provide a higher quality of care. Read More …
Dignity Health Facilities Receive $220M Facelift to Express Health, Healing and Humankindness
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Dignity Health is underway with a $220-million, multi-phase improvement project across its 39-hospital network that recognizes the role the physical environment has on the ability to improve healing and the overall experience of patients, their families and visitors. Read More …
New Shriners for Children Medical Center Integrates Medical Building, Healing Landscape
PASADENA, Calif. — The Shriners for Children Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, is moving to Pasadena, where a new medical complex will combine a contemporary, three-story building collaboratively designed by CO Architects and SRG Partnership, and a healing-centered landscape created by Rios Clementi Hale Studios. Read More …
