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Healthcare Design Trends
Interior Design Magazine recently ran an article on the 2014 Market Trends in Healthcare Design. The Affordable Care Act has changed the way designers and healthcare providers think in terms of design for facilities. Focus has shifted to the following six categories: outpatient care, workplace design, rethinking hospitality, better materials, integrating nature and flexibility. The article describes in detail the changes being made in these categories.
Below are some photos of new and innovative healthcare facilities. To read the entire article and see the slideshow in Interior Design Magazine, click here.
At Massachusetts General Hospital, Lunder Building, one wall is all windows, letting in natural light, which is proven to promote healing. Photography by Anton Grassl/Esto, courtesy of NBBJ.
This shows a patient room at Massachusetts General Hospital, Lunder Building with a wall of windows letting in natural light. The view to the outside is much better for a patient than the stark walls that patients used to have. Photography by Frank Oudeman.
At the Cancer Center Expansion in the St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, Oregon, the use of wood and nature art on the walls gives patients a calming feeling as they undergo treatment. Photography by Pete Eckert.
A patient room at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown, Massachussetts with a view of the ocean. Photography by Anton Grassl/Esto, courtesy of Perkins+Will.
Source: Interior Design Magazine
