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Master planning for the future
A gallery showing some of the best practices in health care facility master planning. Read the related article "New thinking for hospital master plans."
Provide outdoor healing space and integrate nature with the built environment.| Photo courtesy of Eckenhoff Saunders Architects
In a direction established during master planning, nursing is completely decentralized. Nested patient bathrooms (back to back between the patient rooms) enable a clean, rectangular shape to the patient room. The room is designed for acute care, but the dimensions will allow for rooms to be adapted in the future to critical care, should the patent mix change. | Image: @Tom Rossiter/Courtesy SOM
Views to nature enhance the healing experience. | Photo courtesy Eckenhoff Saunders Architects
Master plans should establish an overall organizing framework to ensure flexibility. | Graphic courtesy of Eckenhoff Saunders Architects
Architects of the Alexian Brothers Women & Children’s Hospital developed a master plan with facility solutions that could be actionable in the next one to five years, depending on changing health care needs. | Graphic courtesy of Eckenhoff Saunders Architects