Massive hospitals are transitioning into multiple smaller buildings across the community, according to an article on the Healthcare Finance News website.
As Medicare policy encourages shorter inpatient hospital stays, the need for huge facilities is declining, according to real estate analysts.
“The future of new healthcare facility development will feature more retail-based facilities and ‘community care clinics’ that will house multiple programs, ranging from primary care, urgent and emergency care, physical therapy, imaging centers, outpatient surgery and other programs that are under one roof with separate treatment areas,” Tim Delgado, Read King Medical Development, said in the article.
The increase in rates of outpatient treatments and decreases in inpatient treatment, are fueling the push into the "retail" sector by offering outpatient clinics and emergency centers in convenient areas designed to attract these commercially insured people, according to the article.
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