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Publisher: The Center for Health Design and Georgia Institute of Technology
File Size: 221 KB
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Executive Summary:
Building a new hospital or undertaking a major renovation is likely to
be the biggest financial decision that a CEO or hospital board of
trustees will ever make. There is a growing body of evidence that now
links the physical environment with safety and quality outcomes for
patients and staff. As part of their management and fiduciary
responsibilities, hospital leaders and boards must base decisions about
built-environment investments that include cost-effective
evidence-based design (EBD) interventions in their strategic plan and
investment portfolio or risk suffering the economic consequences in an
increasingly competitive and transparent environment.
This paper
provides an EBD toolkit for leaders to use when considering a major
building project, as well as a proposed return-on-investment framework
to evaluate the business case for each EBD feature included. These
features, when combined with a transformation of the organization's
culture and processes, maximize the capital investment by quantifiably
improving patient safety and quality, enhancing workforce recruitment
and retention, and producing a significant multiyear return on
investment.