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Project Brief

Hospital Design Responds to Diverse Urban and Cultural Needs
July 2015 ∘ Project Brief

Learn about: the ways hospital planners worked within both architecture and urban planning parameters; a new facility that could serve various populations in a diverse cultural environment; and a hospital setting that could function as a self-sustaining community and enhance wellness.
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Interview

Small is Beautiful: Patient-Centered Medical Home Model May Be the End of Large Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities, an Interview with Dan Thomas, AIA, EDAC
November 2015 ∘ Interview

Learn about: the ways facility design can support the patient-centered medical home model, the key issues and challenges associated with implementing this model and the outcomes that can be positively impacted through patient-centered medical homes.
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Redesigning the Primary Care System Into Patient-Centered Medical Homes, an interview with Beverley H. Johnson
November 2015 ∘ Interview

Learn about: the ways patient-centered medical homes are changing care environments, the importance of involving patients in the creation of patient-centered medical homes and the outcomes that can be improved for patients as a result of patient-centered medical homes.
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Interview

Taking the Next Step: Building Effective, Multi-Functional, Patient-Driven Medical Homes, an interview with Cindy Barr, RN, EDAC
November 2015 ∘ Interview

Learn about: the definition of patient-centered medical homes, the connection between patient-centered medical homes and acute care facilities and ways to implement a patient-centered medical home.
Blog

Stepping Up Efforts for High-Risk Populations
January 2016 ∘ Blog

The value of taking a patient-centered approach to providing healthcare seems obvious. After all, the patient is the one who ultimately reaps the benefits of good health, so shouldn’t he or she also have the chance to take an active role in his treatment process, guiding his own outcomes? That’s the premise of a Patient-Centered Medical Home. Yet for healthcare organizations that provide a safety need for low-income and high risk populations, getting some of the poorest and sickest patients involved in their own care can be quite challenging.
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Treating Patients as Partners

January 2016 ∘ Blog

How far do you go to involve your patients as a valued part of your organization? The answer may become increasingly important over the next few years. In the current healthcare climate, accrediting bodies and insurers are expecting providers to step up their efforts to design their care models in such a way as to encourage patients to take an active role in their own medical care.
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Getting to the Heart of a Patient-Centered Medical Home

January 2016 ∘ Blog

Have you earned the designation of a Patient-Centered Medical Home (or PCMH) yet? If not, now is a good time to explore this up-and-coming model of excellence, which can be of benefit to both your patients and your organization, especially when you support the concept with your facility design so it all comes together seamlessly.