Here are four hospitals that have been designed to help improve wellbeing:
- Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston built its “Lunder” building, offering large stairwells flooded with natural light and quiet patient floors, which can improve stress levels for workers by providing a more relaxed atmosphere.
- Atrium Health in Charlotte, N.C. also commissioned a new design for staff work areas that made employees feel safer and more at ease in the workplace as well as increasing opportunities for teamwork and collaboration.
- The recent expansion at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Inland Empire, Calif., had a centralized layout, with the distribution of patient and supply rooms along the wings meaning healthcare workers don’t have to travel as far or long when going about their tasks.
- Montage’s Ohana Center in Monterey, Calif., has incorporated nature into the building design, offering patients and workers a respite from the stress of daily tasks, and it lowers arousal fatigue.
