ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
expectations may be similar, their experience of the hospital is that of a workplace, rather than a care and treatment environment. Consequently, diversity insights from hospital staff groups are helpful, but not sufficiently robust to truly form the basis of a diversity design strategy for healthcare environments.
Need for benchmarking
Undoubtedly, more needs to be done to drive this agenda. The demographics of hospital users change from location to location, and from project to project, so data and insights gathered from previous projects and care team stakeholders must be combined with specific feedback from a representative cross-section of patients and user groups. The first step to achieving this is to acknowledge the wellbeing benefits of an inclusive patient environment, and to ensure that diversity is established as a clear and measurable objective in the design process, with all the benchmarking and post-occupation analysis that accompanies that goal. Healthcare is a sector where the design process is supported by a detailed framework of HTM guidance, with each memorandum regularly updated to reflect advances in technology and trends in patient treatment. There is no such guidance on building more culturally diverse facilities or environments that offer choice, and if we are truly aiming to embed a patient-centered approach into hospitals, perhaps it is time for diversity to form part of the guidance issued for compliant design or, at least, for a mandatory stipulation that this should be integral to the briefing, consultation, and design development process?
Brenda Bush-Moline
Brenda Bush-Moline AIA, LEED AP, EDAC, is a Vice President and US Health Sector leader at Stantec, ‘a global services firm committed to improved health for our communities’. With a focus on health and wellness, she says she is ‘inspired to translate design and planning intentions into architecture that reflects the mission and vision of the client organisations she serves’ – with her ‘immersive, experience-based approach to design and planning’ resulting in authentic and effective solutions. She is currently contributing to innovative planning for clients include Geisinger Health and Jefferson Health. She has practised architecture for over 25 years, is a licensed architect, serves on the Advisory Board for the Healthcare Facilities Symposium, is an ASHE member, and holds evidence-based design accreditation and certification status with the Center for Health Design.
Burkhard Musselmann
An architect with nearly 20 years’ experience in designing, documenting, and managing a wide range of healthcare projects, Burkhard Musselmann is now playing a vital role in the operations of the Stantec London office, as managing principal. Since joining Stantec in 2003, he has completed an MSc in Construction and Project Management at the Queen’s University Belfast. During his studies he carried out extensive research into the delivery of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) healthcare projects in the UK. He specialises in the management and execution of large, complex healthcare projects, and leads multidisciplinary design teams through all stages of the design – from inception to completion – both in the UK and internationally. The wide range of projects in his portfolio includes the South West Acute Hospital in Northern Ireland, which has won 11 design and sustainability awards.
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