Healthcare’s Shifting Operational Standards

NEW YORK – The healthcare industry has gone through a major transformation within recent years. Enduring numerous operational changes, including the consolidation of hospitals and emerging technology trends, the industry’s shifting ideals are currently affecting hospital construction.

Concerning this topic, New York-based medical real estate developer, Simone Health expands on the ways that these evolving standards influence the commercial real estate industry.

Patient-Centric Model

Due to healthcare’s shifting ideals, Simone Health suggests that a patient-centric approach has become increasingly preferred and implemented within medical facilities. Referring to the care that these facilities provide, this model centers around the patient and primarily focuses on interactions, desires and needs. In effort to boost positive healthcare experiences and improve the effectiveness of healthcare services, this approach better connects professionals and patients prior to any treatment.

Mixed-Use Facilities

Simone Health additionally suggests that combining several commercial spaces into one single-property, as a mixed-use development, has increased due to healthcare’s shifting standards. Such mixed-use spaces have required major healthcare facilities to down-size the scale of their operations to incorporate themselves within these projects. This shift additionally prompts a more efficient and attentive level of patient care.

Community-Based Care

Further providing individuals with quality attention and aiming to comply to evolving demands, additional healthcare solutions, such as unique live-in programs, provide patients with services from the comfort of their own home if needed. This type of patient-oriented care encompasses nursing, rehabilitation and physical therapy. While such community-based care may lessen the demand for physical healthcare institutions, it would not eliminate the need.

Ambulatory Clinics

Healthcare provided outside of the typical hospital setting, within outpatient or ambulatory clinics, helps to serve those in need of consultation, observation or treatment. These clinics are introducing cost savings alongside equal or improved overall quality of care, and also provide large cost-saving opportunities for hospitals. Furthermore, these clinics have shown to deliver improved surgical outcomes for patients, due to shorter recovery times and reduced risk of surgical complications.

“As the healthcare industry continues to rapidly grow and expand, so do their commonly held ideals,” states Joe Simone, president of Simone Development Companies.

“Stay up to date on how these shifting healthcare ideals are affecting the overall hospital construction process for the upcoming years,” Simone suggests.