Creating Care
Spaces
Safely providing spaces for people with health and wellness in mind.
VIEWPOINT
CAREGIVER
COMMUNITY
PATIENT
DESIGN
Caregiver
Engaging staff spaces are essential to avoid burnout and fatigue.
• Staff Rooms – include daylight that allows for a
relaxing environment to recharge, take a break,
or have a meal
• Respite Space – faculty and staff space with
soft lounge furniture, a nice view of the outdoors,
and privacy
• Outdoor Space – access to an area for relaxation
and enjoying the outdoors
Caregiver Staff Space
Workspaces for caregivers need to allow for flexibility and well-being. They support teams to engage with one another easily and efficiently.
• Team Hub – workspace for teams
• Team Huddle – high-performing collaboration areas
for quick all-hands meetings and shift changes
• Satellite – workstations near patient care for
caregiver to chart
Caregiver Workspace
Caregiver spaces are the spaces where nurses and providers go to do their best work. These spaces offer a place for efficient patient care and caregiver respite. These include nurses' stations, team spaces, exam rooms, lounge areas, break rooms, and outdoor spaces.
Empower Caregiver
Haworth Health has a broad focus that supports health systems beyond the clinical spaces where people heal. We bring our customers the power of design for elevated human performance through a portfolio of solutions that put people at the center. We believe three key areas in a healthcare facility—caregiver, community, and patient spaces—are all essential for success.
Putting People
at the Center
Empower Caregiver
Foster Community
Engage Patient
Caregiver spaces are the spaces where nurses and providers go to do their best work. These spaces offer a place for efficient patient care and caregiver respite. This would include nurses' stations, team spaces, exam rooms, lounge, or break rooms.
Empower Caregiver
Community
Point of care areas provide spaces that offer a variety of choice.
• Transition Space – area where patients and care
partners wait for their appointment
• Family Lounge – adjacent to the transition space,
offering more intimate, private spaces for families
with longer wait times
Point of Care
Public space is where people first enter a healthcare facility. This area offers a variety of seating options and wayfinding to destinations.
• Hospitality – lobby and reception areas with a
concierge experience and where families can
gather in sectioned spaces
• Outdoor – adjacent to the lobby, offering choice
in spaces for patients and care partners
Public space
Community spaces are areas in a healthcare facility that patients, family, and friends use while they wait for care or for their loved one. These spaces offer many amenities such as areas to relax, have privacy, catch up on work, or grab a bite to eat. These spaces include lobbies, outdoor spaces, and cafés.
Fostering Community
Patient
Treatments such as infusions require specific spaces for patients.
Treatment Space
Outpatient spaces may include an exam room that involves self-rooming.
• Exam Room – an assigned room for the patient
to wait instead of the waiting area
Outpatient
The patient's journey could be drastically different today versus just six months ago. With technology and social distance awareness, patient spaces are changing to accommodate.
Engage Patient
The inpatient room is where the patient recovers after treatment. It may be adaptable between ICU and standard patient rooms.
Inpatient
TRENDS
When designing for exam rooms – create a clearly identified patient pathway for self-rooming. Exam rooms will have dual entries so providers can enter from the “back of house” hallway.
Design
Patient & Caregiver
Community
Click the icons on the floorplates to explore transformative spaces that enhance well-being for patients and communities in a conceptual inpatient and outpatient healthcare facility.
Community Lounge + Café Space
Hospitality Space
First Impression
Transition Space + Self Rooming
Care Team Space
Transition Space + Family Lounge
Treatment or Infusion Space
Caregiver Respite
Team Huddle
Enclosed Caregiver Respite Spaces
Community
Community spaces are areas in a healthcare facility that patients, family, and friends use while they wait for care or for their loved one. These spaces offer many amenities such as areas to relax, have privacy, catch up on work, or grab a bite to eat. These spaces include lobbies, outdoor spaces, and cafés.
Fostering Community
Community
Lounge +
Café Space
An open area that provides numerous options for those waiting for appointments, family, or even stopping in for a quick lunch from the café.
A residential and wellness feel to comfort and relax patients. Daylight and access to nature become an important part of healing.
Be_Hold Storage
Community
Community spaces are areas in a healthcare facility that patients, family, and friends use while they wait for care or for their loved one. These spaces offer many amenities such as areas to relax, have privacy, catch up on work, or grab a bite to eat. These spaces include lobbies, outdoor spaces, and cafés.
Fostering Community
Treatment or Infusion Space
Cultivate Table
Community
Community spaces are areas in a healthcare facility that patients, family, and friends use while they wait for care or for their loved one. These spaces offer many amenities such as areas to relax, have privacy, catch up on work, or grab a bite to eat. These spaces include lobbies, outdoor spaces, and cafés.
Fostering Community
When caregivers need to rejuvenate, the choice of food service, where they sit, and options for indoor and outdoor all contribute to their well-being.
Caregiver Respite
Community
Clinical
Community
Clinical
Enclose Moveable Walls
Community
Community spaces are areas in a healthcare facility that patients, family, and friends use while they wait for care or for their loved one. These spaces offer many amenities such as areas to relax, have privacy, catch up on work, or grab a bite to eat. These spaces include lobbies, outdoor spaces, and cafés.
Fostering Community
Enclosed Caregiver Respite Spaces
Caregivers can choose their type of comfortable seating and level of daylight and privacy. Lounges, chairs and ottomans, and occasional tables furnish a warmer residential setting as a retreat from patients.
Openest Chick Pouf
Gates Recliner
UMA Table Light
BuzziScreen Mix Room Divider
Maari Sled Base Stool
Maari Wood Base Chair
Tate Tables + Benches
Openest Chick Pouf
BuzziMoon Pendant Light
Healthcare Trends
A silver lining to the pandemic has been the unprecedented speed of innovation and the implementation of new best practices. Solutions that once took years are now developed on timelines of weeks or days. Fast tracking is made possible by global collaboration across disciplines and open-source design.
Adam Plancia and Yan Fossat
in
“Anyone can innovate,
from anywhere, at any age.”
Canadian Journal of Public Health
Technology
Biomimicry
Caregivers
Well-Being
Technology
Biomimicry
Caregivers
Well-Being
Telemed gained wider acceptance and use during stay-at-home orders and will remain a vital tool in patient care.
On-site visits will still take place for clinical needs but technologies like facial recognition, mobile check-ins, in-room virtual assistants, and robotics will transform many activities from high-touch to contactless.
Wearables and ambient devices will help monitor patient health outside medical facilities.
Technology Changes the Patient Journey
Design Impact
Design Impact
When designing for exam rooms, create a clearly identified patient pathway for self-rooming. Exam rooms will have dual entries so providers can enter from the care team space.
Provide both enclosed, private spaces for telemed appointments as well as huddle rooms that are integrated with technology to support quick connections with patients, their families, and other caregivers or providers that are consulting.
Well-Being
Technology
Biomimicry
Caregivers
The future of health systems will be grounded in well-being and prevention. Leaders will set the example with healthy spaces, healthy eating, and community events.
Events will move off the healthcare campus to be integrated where people live and work, promoting community-wide health and wellness.
Source: Advisory.com
Leading by Example
Design Impact
Design Impact
Delineate space to allow for families to have physical boundaries to safely separate. Use various types of seating to accommodate the needs of families and care partners (so everyone can choose their own type of safe place).
Consider creating spaces that allow for various types of activities such as working, reading, or grabbing a quick bite to eat.
Source: Globe News Wire
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Both outdoor and indoor spaces that use biophilic design are proven to promote healing.
Look for more social spaces with lounge seating options and hospitality amenities to be replicated outdoors when weather permits.
Clever architecture will be used to create microclimates and extend seasons, keeping outdoor spaces accessible longer or even throughout the entire year.
Source: NCBI
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Tapping into the Benefits of Biomimicry
Design Impact
Design Impact
Designers can replicate their indoor spaces outside so that they offer a combination of settings such as café tables, seating, and lounge elements.
Offering outdoor spaces to patients, guests, and caregivers promotes healing and respite.
To reduce burnout and disengagement, employers are addressing caregivers’ physical and mental well-being.
Workplace design that adapts to changing workflows empowers caregivers to make choices in work modes, postures, and adjustments within the environment.
Workplace design will also recognize that caregiver respite requires more than a breakroom. A choice in downtime activities and environments will allow a more personalized approach for caregiver rejuvenation.
Source: Advisory.com
Empowering Caregivers
Design Impact
Design Impact
Care team spaces need to provide an efficient way to work as well as changes in posture with height-adjustable tables and flexibility in modular furniture. These stations also need to be near all the surrounding areas that this team monitors.
Offering outdoor spaces to caregivers provides them with a way to recharge and literally get a breath of fresh air during their long shifts.
When designing for caregivers' respite space, access to light should be taken into consideration. Providing the ability to darken or lighten a room is critical.
Pergola Workspace
Community
Community spaces are areas in a healthcare facility that patients, family, and friends use while they wait for care or for their loved one. These spaces offer many amenities such as areas to relax, have privacy, catch up on work, or grab a bite to eat. These spaces include lobbies, outdoor spaces, and cafés.
Fostering Community
Immerse Shift Table
Maari 5-Star Base Chair
Zody Task Chair
Intuity Benching
Enclose Moveable Walls
Cielo Pendant Light
Maari Wood Base Stool
Community
Community spaces are areas in a healthcare facility that patients, family, and friends use while they wait for care or for their loved one. These spaces offer many amenities such as areas to relax, have privacy, catch up on work, or grab a bite to eat. These spaces include lobbies, outdoor spaces, and cafés.
Fostering Community
Transition Space + Self Rooming
Providing hospitality for care partners as well as a pause for patients transitioning to the next part of their journey.
PopUp Table
Team Huddle
Freestanding architecture that provides a drop-in space for structured and unstructured collaboration. Shift change
and rounds kick-off can be accommodated in these spaces.
Spinnaker Side Chair
Sprig Table
Compose Workstation
Community
Community spaces are areas in a healthcare facility that patients, family, and friends use while they wait for care or for their loved one. These spaces offer many amenities such as areas to relax, have privacy, catch up on work, or grab a bite to eat. These spaces include lobbies, outdoor spaces, and cafés.
Fostering Community
Care Team Space
A flexible activity-based setting
for care teams. Height-adjustable tables and work tools are adaptable for individual user needs and possess long-term flexibility for workflow or service change.
Monitor Arms
Upside Height-Adjustable Table
Enclose Moveable Walls
Atwell Lounge Chair
Community
Community spaces are areas in a healthcare facility that patients, family, and friends use while they wait for care or for their loved one. These spaces offer many amenities such as areas to relax, have privacy, catch up on work, or grab a bite to eat. These spaces include lobbies, outdoor spaces, and cafés.
Fostering Community
Transition Space + Family Lounge
Hospitality in a clinic or an inpatient floor to support guests and family members. Well done social spaces can increase satisfaction and likelihood to recommend from patients and family.
Openest Chick Pouf
Pip Personal Table
An area with various types of seating to accommodate different activities. Freestanding architecture to delineate space and provide a sense of privacy.
Pergola Workspace
Community
Community spaces are areas in a healthcare facility that patients, family, and friends use while they wait for care or for their loved one. These spaces offer many amenities such as areas to relax, have privacy, catch up on work, or grab a bite to eat. These spaces include lobbies, outdoor spaces, and cafés.
Fostering Community
Hospitality Space
First
Impression
Registration. This area is where first impressions happen. Patients and guests receive a warm greeting and are guided to registration or are offered a choice of amenities. This is the area where well-being is promoted.
Community
Community spaces are areas in a healthcare facility that patients, family, and friends use while they wait for care or for their loved one. These spaces offer many amenities such as areas to relax, have privacy, catch up on work, or grab a bite to eat. These spaces include lobbies, outdoor spaces, and cafés.
Fostering Community
Maari Wood Base Chair
Cultivate Table
BuzziBooth
Jive Table
Immerse Stack Table
Back-Wing Armchair
Maari Wood Base Chair
Lud'o Lounge
Cabana Lounge Island
Cabana Lounge
Cabana Lounge
BuzziNordic ST100 Lounge
Cabana Lounge
Slant Lounge
Community spaces are areas in a healthcare facility that patients, family, and friends use while they wait for care or for their loved one. These spaces offer many amenities such as areas to relax, have privacy, catch up on work, or grab a bite to eat. These spaces could include lobby areas, outdoor spaces, and cafes.
Foster Community
These are the spaces at the point of care—patient rooms, exam rooms, and treatment spaces such as infusion or recovery areas. With very specific needs for patients as well as the healthcare process, these spaces require cleanability and disinfecting.
Engage Patient
Cabana Lounge
Poppy Lounge
Pergola Workspace
Cultivate Table
Maari 4-Leg Base Stool
BuzziBooth
Atwell Side Chair
Riverbend Lounge
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Haworth Health has a portfolio of solutions that put people at the center.
Soji Chair, Faux Leather Upholstered