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Hospital innovation centers become testing grounds for new design concepts. Read the related article "Hospitals test out new design concepts."
A patient room in the Herman Family Pavilion at Queen of the Valley Medical Center, Napa Valley, Calif. | PHOTO BY TOM BONNER
A mock-up in Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente’s Garfield Innovation Center. | PHOTO BY SERENE LAU
A meeting at the multihospital Innovation Institute in La Palma, Calif. | PHOTO BY LEONARD MYSZYNSKI
St. Joseph Health, Irvine, Calif., a member owner of the Innovation Institute, has partnered with Petra ICS to design and build wellness clinics. | PHOTO COURTESY OF THE INNOVATION INSTITUTE
Petra ICS, a subsidiary of the Innovation Institute, used advanced project delivery tools to complete the LEED Gold-certified Herman Family Pavilion at Queen of the Valley Medical Center on time and under budget. | PHOTO BY TOM BONNER
Kaiser Permanente worked with physicians, nurses, support staff and patients’ family members at the organization’s Garfield Innovation Center to develop a new design for neonatal intensive care unit rooms. | PHOTO BY SERENE LAU
The Simulation Training and Education Lab is run by MedStar Health, Columbia, Md., as part of the MedStar Institute for Innovation. | PHOTO COURTESY OF MEDSTAR HEALTH
At Intermountain Healthcare’s Alta View Hospital in East Sandy, Utah, the system’s Healthcare Transformation Lab is testing the use of handheld tablet devices to allow patients to perform a variety of tasks like adjust the temperature in their rooms. | SCREENSHOT COURTESY OF INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE