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HEALTHCARE REAL ESTATE, CONSTRUCTION, DESIGN & FACILITY PLANNING

The Challenge of Architecture in Healthcare

Architects are constantly improving Climate adaption is another complex tions. What this means to the medical
our medical community through design issue thrown into the mix that will be facilities and their design professionals is
and service. This is no easy task in the acknowledged in our new medical facili- that a strategic partnership must be
health care field as we are continuously ties. In South Florida, it’s more than just formed between the client and architect.
asked to reinvent ourselves; weathering hurricane protection, it’s having a global Our projects will less and less be isolated
the storms of change and trends. This is environmental understanding of change commissions void of a big picture narra-
not only a matter of doing more with and responding accordingly. You can be tive for a design solution. Codes provide
less, it’s incorporating flexibility and passionate about the environment with- the boundaries, but knowledgeable pro-
change in our buildings by understand- out understanding what to design to fessionals will make the difference that
ing new technologies and updated adapt to changes. An example of lessons will lead the next generation of respon-
processes and procedures which change learned which will never be repeated was sive medical facilities in the future.
the patterns of healthcare. Our clients are New Orleans, where Hurricane Katrina’s Environmental problems for tomorrow
constantly required to drive down the problems did not stop at the city’s bor- are not the next generation’s problem.
costs of healthcare while maximizing BY CHARLES A. ders and the lack of flood planning near- Designers must respond to all of the crit-
the quality of healthcare delivered. We MICHELSON ly doomed a city. Sea levels rise, extreme ical issues today. These important values
need to be informed to respond. weather, and salt water intrusion require must become project considerations as
The architecture of change starts with memory, a positive value system, along our facilities to be constructed in excess part of a total comprehensive building
defining the right problem. Responding with being innovation champions in of current code requirements and strategy.
correctly to surprising and potentially order to succeed. Leaders will embrace respond to new environmental criteria.
disrupting innovations in medicine can change and adapt when problems arise. Technology in and of itself will not For more information, contact Charles A.
ultimately represent a competitive The ability to adapt to change quickly provide the answers. Technology is a Michelson, President, Saltz Michelson
advantage and provide differentiation and effectively by providing changes double edged sword since a tool without Architects, at (954) 266-2700 or
between health care providers. A leader- “speed to market” will represent the knowledge and comprehension will not cmichelson@saltzmichelson.com or visit
ship team needs to balance institutional leadership of success. necessarily achieve the right design solu- www.saltzmichelson.com.

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