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Ambulatory healthcare facilities are changing the way people experience healthcare, away from the busy campuses of hospitals and emergency rooms. The demand for efficient cost-effective design requires rigorous, value-based planning metrics. The past 4 years I have led a subcommittee of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health Research Initiatives Committee to create a methodology […]
Two of our current projects are defining new models for delivering health care to under-served populations in Harris County, Texas. Both involve creating new access to health services through neighborhood ‘portals’ – places where communities gather already. Introducing health services into a community gathering place brings lots of change: new service providers, new ‘customers’, sharing of […]