The staff lounge at Westside Family Health Center in Culver City, Calif.
As the nation commemorated the first anniversary of COVID-19’s arrival this spring, Novant Health in Charlotte, N.C., was preparing the official launch of a pandemic-spawned new normal. On April 1, its first “corporate hub” opened to accommodate a new hybrid work model.
“We’re moving away from assigned office or cubicle space to a hoteling model,” said Matthew Stiene, Novant’s senior vice president of construction and facility services. “Our expectation is team members will come to the office maybe two or three days a week and work remotely two or three days a week.”
ZGF ARCHITECTS
University of Illinois Health in Chicago broke ground on its Outpatient Surgery Center and Specialty Clinic in 2020.
While just about everyone expects that healthcare will continue to push into outpatient settings, whether the pandemic is strengthening that trend depends on whom you talk to.
“Yes, the outpatient growth was already booming prior to the pandemic. To assuage consumer concerns, there is a need for an increased number of ambulatory settings today,” Earl Swensson Associates, an architectural firm based in Nashville, said in its response to Modern Healthcare’s 2021 Construction & Design Survey.
“No,” Gould Turner Group, an architectural, planning and interior design firm based in Nashville, said in its survey response. “If anything, the pandemic has caused office visits to decline, and we’ve seen an increase in telehealth visits.”
Research shows effects of building design on mental health care - Silicon Valley Business Journal bizjournals.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bizjournals.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.