Industry leaders share their ideas on planning considerations and solutions to help address the current pandemic while preparing for future unexpected events.
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How COVID-19 Is Changing Behavioral Healthcare Facility Design
The industry has an opportunity to proactively address the many challenges brought to light by the pandemic through flexible designs and reimagined care spaces, both indoors and outdoors.
Accelerating Change: Open To New Ideas
Embracing the technologies, systems, and new lifestyle implications of the COVID-19 crisis will help us progress in a better, healthier way.
Creating A Place Of Sanctuary For Mental Health Patients
Input from former patients helped guide design decisions for the West Springs Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo.
Culture Change
Does prioritizing good design while encouraging organizational values in a hospital translate into a high-performing culture?
Rebalancing Design Criteria After COVID-19
It’s important that the industry addresses virus management without losing sight of other patient care unit design priorities.
Growing Research Supports Benefits Of Healing Gardens
Studies on the Legacy Emanuel Healing Garden is starting to bear fruit on the importance of outdoor access for patients, staff, and family visitors and best practices for achieving these spaces in healthcare facilities.
Mockups In The Time of Coronavirus
GBBN’s healthcare project team shares how it adapted its mockup process to allow a client to experience in-person tours while the architecture firm remotely led the tour and gathered feedback.
Strategies For Reopening During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Healthcare facilities should rethink technology usage, entrance/exit layouts, and waiting room strategies as they start bringing back elective and non-critical care.
Implications Of COVID-19 On Healthcare Design
Healthcare organizations are changing the way they plan and design for air filtration, storage, and air flow within their facilities.
Vacant Department Store In California Eyed For Possible COVID-19 Alternate Care Site
A former Sears store would be turned into a 200-bed site after more than $1 million in upgrades.
Replacement Healthcare Center For Veterans Slated For Montana
The 52,000-square-foot David J. Thatcher VA Clinic will offer primary care, mental health, and specialty care services.
