Flexible design can help healthcare facilities meet future changes and use their capital investments wisely, according to an article on the Hospitals and Health Networks website.
Architects are designing spaces that can be converted from inpatients to outpatients and from critical care to rehabilitation therapy, the article said.
“Flexibility is an investment in future choice,” said Heather Chung of SmithGroupJJR. Mark Patterson. “It’s definitely a topic we address with every client, because of their interest in it and the responsibility they have for the capital investment.”
Hospitals must weigh very expenditure against competing project demands — present and future.
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