Article: Making accommodations; Award-winning designs take approaches that benefit patients, family and staff.

Byline: Andis Robeznieks

In recent years, judges in the Modern Healthcare annual Design Awards contest noted how award-winning projects made exceptional use of natural light, and how the new facilities fit into and matched their environments.

This yearthe 24th annual design competitionjudges noted these features again. But they also chose the projects that took a regional approach to the use of materials; made extraordinary efforts to accommodate family members and personal caregivers; incorporated way-finding elements as well as patient-safety and energy-efficiency concepts into their designs; attempted to ergonomically engineer a workplace that made ...

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