How to build Healthy Hospitals

Poor design leads to poor experiences not just for doctors, but even for nurses and physicians.

Designing and planning to build a hospital requires exceptional knowledge and skill in various fields. Currently, medicine tends to be a holistic discipline, according to which the individual should be treated as a whole and provided with comprehensive health care related to physiology, biochemistry, nutrition, exercise, social relationships and also the habitat.

Setting Design Goals

“Today, architecturally speaking, we tend to subscribe to this holistic commitment to health, seeking better visual and spatial quality and greater readability of hospital buildings that may be beneficial for patients. Patients are increasingly demanding comfortable environments that feel more like a home than a medical facility.? That also indicates that beauty and comfort are as just as important to a patient’s well-being as a sterile environment. Being in a healthcare facility causes anxiety. To that end, healthcare architecture is increasingly attempting to allow for more personalised patient rooms to reduce anxiety while enhancing satisfaction. Features like patient communication boards and customizable digital signage with the name of the patient, family photos and more are being incorporated into healthcare facilities.

How Imaging Centres serve up healthy design to woo patients

Even imaging centres give priority to a healthy design these days. Take the example of Chandrika Sahay, a lead architect Meraki Dezine. She kept health benefits in her mind while designing the Mahajan Imaging Centre in Gurugram.? It is warm and welcoming, and helps reduce the anxiety of visiting patients, while at the same time adhering to hospital standards.

Elements of cognitive design that appeal to all five senses have been incorporated. Vibrant colours, biophilic elements such as custom graphics, a vertical garden, a tall cascading, water feature at the entrance, distressed wood flooring and an MRI room that has artificial grass with a theme-based graphic (the only one in the world) are only some of these unique elements of design that help elevate the mood of visitors. The furniture has been custom designed and made by local carpenters. The weaving of nylon straps, a typical Indian technique used in charpai has been used for folding beds for the waiting area chairs. Pendant lights with filament bulbs suspended with the help of ropes were used to light the reception and common areas. The reception area was pulled towards the center for ease of circulation of patients to the various diagnostic rooms. A wall has been dedicated to artworks of special children who were born without sight but have gained vision after treatments. All such design elements and detailing, actually increases the reliable outcome of patients’ scans. When all the senses are in balance, and emotions are regulated, that is the real moment at which healing begins

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