Mitra Pakdaman, Founder & CEO at LA Healthcare Design
Transformation of Healthcare Interior Design into Retail Design: Causes and Effects
Interior Designers play a key role in creating innovative healthcare spaces, while rendering to clients’ requirements and patient needs. As a Healthcare Interior Designer puts it, “Healthcare Interior Design not limited to putting buildings on a campus; it’s about thinking of a bigger picture, a bigger vision, and providing leadership.”
Considering the rising prevalence of adverse environmental conditions and lifestyle-related diseases, there is a great need for equipping healthcare facilities with resilient and rapidly deliverable essential public health services. Hospitals are transforming from regular conventional campuses into upgraded facilities within the reach of patient communities.
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According to the HFM magazine, a majority of the hospitals are shifting towards the retail strategy of housing out-patient services in a variety of facilities from large free-standing medical office buildings (MOBs) on medical campuses to small express clinics, with a focus on the retail amenities and branding. As a result, out-patient services are being offered at small retail centers, which are part of large healthcare malls.
