Facility professionals should be involved in hospital design from the beginning, according to a blog on the Healthcare Design website. Design groups seldom have anyone working on their teams who’s ever had direct responsibility for the day-to-day operations of a physical building, according to Robert Harris, director of facility services and construction for Sauk Prairie Memorial Hospital in Prairie du Sac, Wis. The facility manager would, in most cases, find more design problems than any one else on the team.
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