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Get the latest trends, tools, and resources for improving healthcare environments here. Browse our many free and members-only resources, including research reports and issue briefs, interviews, case studies, design strategies, lessons learned, key point summaries, and webinars.

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Project Brief

Design Solutions to Improve Healthcare Access and Outcomes - Kaiser Permanente Antelope Valley Medical Offices
March 2017 ∘ Project Brief

Learn about: how innovative design can be achieved at the same or similar cost, how design can result in a well-regarded community landmark, and how community-based care improves patient use and compliance with regimens.
Project Brief

High Impact Design Solutions to Improve Healthcare Access and Outcomes - Clinica Family Health People's Medical Clinic
March 2017 ∘ Project Brief

Learn about: how facility design facilitates population health goals for a community health clinic, how pod-based layout promotes staff interaction, collaboration, and efficiency, and how the ‘group visit’ room supports patient engagement, education, and continuity of care.
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Tool

Population Health: A Checklist For An Integrated Approach

October 2016 ∘ Tool
The Tool 

This tool provides healthcare designers and professionals with population health principles/goals and how environmental, operational, and people measures can be implemented to achieve said goal. Download the tool by clicking the purple bar above.  
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Design Strategies

Design Strategies — Population Health
October 2016 ∘ Design Strategies
Overview 

Drawing on the roots of public health, a new focus on population health has become a national mandate driven by financial incentives such as updated insurance models, changes in reimbursement, and long-term savings potential.

Healthcare systems, hospitals, and clinics are integrating population health as a key part of their mission, operations, and services. It is imperative for designers, architects, and planners to understand this new landscape and their important role in designing for health.  

 
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Interview

Designers Have a Critical Role in Building Healthy Communities, an interview with David Burney, FAIA
May 2016 ∘ Interview

Learn about: strategies designers can use to improve population health, ways healthcare administrators can help improve their patients' overall quality of life and The Active Design Guidelines.