Focus: Facility Design

Setting clinic design standards

Architects planning a post-occupancy evaluation to assess strengths and weaknesses of different clinic environments to create a standardized approach for design, according to an article on the Healthcare Design website


Architects are planning a post-occupancy evaluation to assess strengths and weaknesses of different clinic environments to create a standardized approach for design, according to an article on the Healthcare Design website. For the project, three unnamed primary care clinics designed by award-winning healthcare design firms were analyzed using a methodology developed for a similar effort at the military health system, tailoring it for outpatient care.

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November 10, 2016



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