Insights & Solutions

Built environment strategies can help healthcare organizations and communities promote healthy living, reduce obesity, and prevent chronic disease. Given the increasing focus on community health and preventive medicine, it is important that healthcare organizations and the communities they serve incorporate built environment strategies that result in healthy behavior.

With support from the Kresge Foundation, The Center for Health Design has developed a standardized Community Health Center Facility Evaluation tool that supports design for population health. The tool is intended to support both design and post-occupancy evaluation of built projects with respect to population health goals.

The goal of this project was to combine two sometimes-competing objectives: to offer positive distraction for patients with proven EBD principles, while honoring the mandates of the U.S. Military’s visual culture.

The goal of this project was to harness the healing power of touch between a bed-ridden patient and a concerned loved one in order to promote healing.

The goal of this project was to create a dining area that would serve as a hub in the local community, with an adjoining kitchen designed for peak efficiency.

The goal of this project was to implement all-private patient room units (with the exception of enlarged rooms for twins/multiples); provide clear visibility and direct line of sight to all patients; increase privacy and offer greater support for mothers to nurse and have “kangaroo care” time with their newborns; improve family and nurse/physician communication; and reduce overall noise levels on the units.

The goal of this project was to address the need for outpatient pediatric services and to continue the brand of an integrated experience on the main hospital campus as a convenient alternative to the disparate outpatient locations available to parents.