Author: Brad Earl, AIA, NCARB, Managing Principal, NELSON Worldwide

Brad Earl, Managing Principal, NELSON Worldwide, discusses repurposing anchor spaces into healthcare facilities in his article on PRISM. “In today’s difficult and urgent healthcare climate, that’s been shaped by a global pandemic, health systems and community hospitals are tapping into the communities they serve to offer as many outpatient services as possible. With a healthcare system that has been increasingly overwhelmed, the abundance of outpatient centers provides a solution to improve quality of care, as well as provide relief to centers that have registered more patients than they can handle. As a result, healthcare service offerings close to residential clusters, demographic epicenters—places where community members work and shop, drive by, and congregate—have created a new patient mantra that is centered around convenience, expedition, and enhanced patient care.”