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This is a method applicable to many types of building projects, but is currently being used in the Healthcare Industry to help convince decision-makers to invest the time and money to build better buildings – and realize strategic business advantages as a result.

Research relevant to healthcare design can come from many areas:

  • Environmental psychologists focus on stress reduction, which includes:

  • # social support (patients, family, staff);

  • # control (privacy, choices, escape);

  • # positive distractions (artwork, music);

  • # influence of nature (plants, flowers, water, wildlife, nature sounds).

  • Clinicians focus on medical and scientific literature, which includes:

  • # treatment modalities (models of care, technology);

  • # quality & safety (infections, errors, falls);

  • # exercise (exertion, rehabilitation).

  • Administration refers to management literature:

  • # financial performance (margin, cost per patient day, nursing hours);

  • # operational efficiency (transfers, utilization, resource conservation);

  • # satisfaction (patient, staff, physician, turnover).


Approximately 600 credible studies with specific environmental relevance have been identified by The Center For Health Design in these areas, and many more applicable research citations are in other branches of the literature.


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