As the demand for behavioral healthcare services continues to increase and reimbursement models begin to favor integrated care, experts say that health systems of all types are turning toward comprehensive care settings. The goal is to safely assess and treat the whole patient with dignity, which speaks to the need for evolving facility designs in the future.
Configuring For Collaboration
Healthcare is moving away from individual encounters with single clinicians and toward coordinated, integrated care by high-performing teams. This is particularly true in the outpatient environment and for healthcare systems pursuing patient-centered medical home (PCMH) models of care.
Rethinking the Clinic: Optimizing the Outpatient Standard
The Outpatient Clinic IF team has hit the ground running, excited to pioneer into the next frontiers of outpatient clinic design. Picking up the baton from Cadre’s research on Clinic 20xx, the team is honing in on key targets to improve both organizational and cultural aspects of the outpatient clinic. Does the layout of a clinic impact utilization? Can modularity and standardization influence capacity of load leveling and efficiency? How can we better design staff workspaces to improve workflow and culture? Over the course of the next year we hope to answer these questions and illustrate solutions on what tomorrow’s optimized clinic might look like.