Healthcare experts agree that this has been the year of the patient. The focus of new medical office construction and hospital remodeling projects has been, and will continue to be centered on patient satisfaction. By utilizing emerging technologies in healthcare construction and design, medical professionals operating ASC’s, urgent care centers, or chronic pain clinic can improve their patients’ hospital experience. In a recent survey published by Health Facilities Management (HFM) and the American Society for Healthcare Engineering of the American Hospital Association (ASHE), nearly 20% of healthcare executives replied that they are repurposing medical spaces to focus more on patient care and bedside services. Read more about the hospital survey.

Medical Office Construction for the Patient

Prevent hospital acquired infections, increase patient satisfaction, and provide a healing environment in your medical office. Find out how a few small changes in healthcare center construction and design can increase productivity and revenue.

Construct wide open spaces

People need space, and patients need even more. One of the best ways you can help to improve the health of your patient, and by doing so also increase their comfort level, is by making pathways and courtyards more available. Stairs should be easily accessible and visible, not pushed off into the corner by the fire escape. Make aisles wide enough for patients to stroll, receive visitors, or talk to the nursing staff. If possible, incorporate bike paths, pedestrian walkways, playgrounds and a healing garden into the landscaping.

Encourage mingling

This may sound like a typo, but it’s for your patient’s benefit to spend some time meeting other patients in your in-patient care facility. Shared spaces are becoming more common in elderly care facilities and out-patient clinics such as ambulatory surgery centers. Trending right now are visitor modules, coffee kiosks, healthy vending machines, residential-style furnishings, multimedia corners, family rooms, and wellness libraries.

Make it equal

When planning the layout for your new construction project, pay attention to mobility and accessibility. Patients of all ages and abilities should be able to access all areas of your medical center. This includes making accommodations for patients in walkers, wheelchairs, crutches or those needing hearing or visual aids.  

Are you ready to make some changes?

Contact a medical construction contractor to get the ball rolling. He’ll help you plan an affordable remodeling project that will allow you to continue receiving patients without any distractions. Renovate or build anew without losing productivity or patient satisfaction. By designing new patient waiting rooms or medical treatment and surgery spaces, a qualified medical office construction expert will guide the way to a more reputable, lucrative career in healthcare.   Sources: Ten Principles for Building Healthy Spaces Image by Richard Winchell, flickr, CC license