There’s a disconnect between those who design, plan, and furnish hospitals and the people who go there to be healed, according to an article on the Metropolis website.
Evidence-based design (EBD) can help lesson the gap. Medicare incorporates EBD into their Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) system.
Even with EBD and VBP, the question must still be asked: Do they go far enough? While metrics-based evidence is important, there is no substitute for healthcare providers and their designers getting closer to the human being at the center of health care.
The late Michael Graves immersed himself into healthcare facilities and used his experiences to place the patient at the center of his designs.
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