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Revolutionising Healthcare (Part 3): Privacy and Community in Wards

How healthcare can be delivered differently and how hospital buildings can play a crucial role in this has been subject of two earlier blog posts discussing aspects of flexible working in a hospital setting and the patient – caregiver interface. In this final and third post (for the time being at least…) covering Orbis Medical Centre  in Sittard…

November 24, 2012 in Buildings, Configuration, People, Usage.

Revolutionising Healthcare (Part 2): The patient – caregiver interface

In an earlier post I have already described how a hospital in the Netherlands is attempting to revolutionising healthcare (by organising – among other things – a flexible working environment that actually works). In this post I want to elaborate on a different aspect of the hospital design of Orbis and investigate how the spatial…

October 24, 2012 in Buildings, People, Space, Space Syntax, Usage.

Revolutionising Healthcare (Part 1): Flexible Working

I’ve recently had the pleasure to visit a hospital in The Netherlands on a research trip and was very impressed with the ways in which the Orbis Medical Centre in Sittard was organised – spatially as well as culturally. Orbis clearly aims at doing things differently in Healthcare and as such can teach us a…

September 12, 2012 in Buildings, People, Usage.

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