Flexibility in Healthcare Environments
The need to be change-ready and the increase in the rate of outpatient care led a recent exploration into flexibility in healthcare design.
Higher Expectations, Less Patience
Waiting is an inescapable part of healthcare. Though often overlooked, waiting and transition spaces are taking on new importance in today’s competitive healthcare marketplace where every element of the patient’s experience matters.
Taking Care of Healthcare Workers
How to design respite space that will improve clinicians’ wellbeing and healthcare organizations’ ROI.
Strategies for Successful Remote Collaboration
Remote work requires a lot more formalization of what would be more informal in the office.
“It’s Personal” — Keeping Healthcare Workers Safe
How Steelcase is making and sharing designs for COVID-19 personal protection equipment for healthcare workers.
Healthcare Expo Showcases Flexibility & Virtual Care
Steelcase Health highlighted virtual care and flexibility in healthcare design as two key topics impacting the industry in 2019.
Reinventing How Healthcare Learning Happens
Lakeland Community College invests in new building to design around students’ needs.
Effective Webside Manner: What Does it Take?
Space matters as clinicians and health systems develop their “webside manner” (the virtual equivalent of bedside manner).
A Flexible Framework for Healthcare
A new body of work on flexibility in healthcare spaces is changing the conversation around how outpatient settings can adapt over time. The FleXX report creates a proposed clear and actionable flexibility framework. Join us as we put the framework to the test by walking through real-world scenarios.
Steelcase Health Supports Virtual Care at NeoCon
Jordan Smith, Steelcase Health WorkSpace Futures, shares how virtual visits can provide benefits for patients, clinicians and healthcare organizations at NeoCon 2019.
Designing Healthcare Solutions for the Real World
Kim Erwin and Jerry Krishnan, co-directors for the Institute for Healthcare Delivery Design at the University of Illinois Chicago, share how healthcare design is returning healthcare to its roots—helping patients, families and clinicians do the right thing.
Designing for the Quadruple Aim
Despite contending with complex and interconnected factors including satisfaction, burnout and reimbursements, healthcare leaders are looking to a future geared toward better health for all. How might the built environment have an impact on their Quadruple Aim goals?