10 Trends Impacting the Next 10 Years of Facility Design – Part I
Recently, Center for Health Design President and CEO Debra Levin was asked by the Samuelli Institute to give a keynote address on trends impacting the next 10 years of healthcare facility design. We put our heads together, and with input from several of our board members and staff, came up with the following list of trends and some key drivers:
1. Aging of America: the Baby Boom generation as the driver of what is and what will be.
2. New Technologies: advancement of Nano technology, telemedicine, home monitoring equipment, “do-it-yourself” diagnostic apps for smart phones/tablets.
3. Patient, Worker, and Environmental Health and Safety: corporate responsibility for sustainability, increased focus on reducing infections, errors, injury.
4. Experience Architecture: movement from service economy to experience economy, customer-focus.
5. Healthy Living: emphasis on physical activity, connection to community.
6. Wellness: connection to other living things, mind-body relationship to illness.
7. Decentralized Healthcare: shift to managed contracts, clinic-based care.
8. Staying Home: becomes an extension of the acute care system.
9. Flexibility: need for adaptable buildings to meet changing modes of delivery.
10. Accountable Healthcare: changes in reimbursement policies, focus on care coordination and keeping people well.
The second part of this, of course, is what facility design changes will occur as a result of these trends. That’s the subject of the next blog post.
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