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Community Health Centers

Changes in health care policy, and a dynamic marketplace that’s looking to improve quality and reduce costs, may put community health centers in an exciting position to be innovators in the movement toward a health care system that is focused on pro-active population health. Community health centers are at the tip of the spear of […]

A Balancing Act

Achieving “Performance, Form, and Flow” is not easy.  Delivering health care that is cost-effective, high quality, with a satisfying experience for the patient takes thoughtful planning and design of Care Delivery, Health IT systems, and Physical Space.  Most importantly it requires knowledge of the interrelationships between these three domains, and a complex ‘balancing act’ to […]

Performance, Form and Flow

In his “10 Books on Architecture” in the First Century A.D., the Roman architect Vitruvius gave us the formula for good architecture – “Firmness, Commodity, and Delight” – a formula still respected today, it has served us well.  But I’d like to humbly propose a new formula for our complex buildings of the 21st century, especially our […]