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Outpatient facilities embrace Lean design
Outpatient facilities embrace Lean design to improve patient throughput. Read the related article "Designing Lean ambulatory care facilities."
Cancer Center in Little Rock, Ark., has five distinct entrances for different patient types. | Photos courtesy of Nick Merrick, Hedrich Blessing
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has built multispecialty clinics outside Philadelphia (top: Brandywine; bottom: King of Prussia) that cut down on travel time to appointments and share signature architectural elements to put patients at ease. | Images courtesy ©Ron Blunt/www.RonBluntPhoto.com
Each of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's multispecialty clinics functions as “a one-stop shop," with multiple services provided in one location for a patient who previously would have had to go to two or three locations. | Images courtesy ©Ron Blunt/www.RonBluntPhoto.com
At Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester, in West Harrison, N.Y., phlebotomy services are positioned near the main entry, allowing patients to have their blood drawn on arrival so that by the time they get to an exam room or treatment area, lab results are already available. | Images courtesy ©Ron Blunt/www.RonBluntPhoto.com
Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester's clinic rooms are built for both exams and consultations, so patients and physicians don’t have to move to another room for a consult. | Images courtesy ©Ron Blunt/www.RonBluntPhoto.com
The first floor of the Stanford Neuroscience Health Center in Palo Alto, Calif., features a centralized registration area to streamline registration procedures. | Photo by Bruce Damonte
Stanford Neuroscience Health Center's centralized system allows patients to check in once and receive a printed itinerary for the day, which includes a pass patients scan when they arrive on the floor for each appointment. | Photo by Bruce Damonte