HEALTHCARE
MAHONEY BUILDING: Located at the Loop 101 and 19th Avenue, the newly constructed building features an outpatient surgery center in addition to a clinic and lab to maximize efficiency and patient experience, which reflects a continuing trend in healthcare delivery.
Just like traditional retailers, robust data and analytics can help healthcare executives better understand where patients are coming from, what they want and what their future needs may be. Organizations often invest significant time and energy on identifying the right submarkets, but then fall short when it comes to analyzing the best location inside that market. Population growth statistics and new housing starts can help identify areas where more primary care physicians may be needed in the future. Meanwhile, other demographics can point to where aging populations are creating new healthcare needs. Plus, traffic data, competitor locations and drive times can all help narrow the options. The right real estate strategy can help hospitals ensure that it has facilities in the right places for the right care, but ultimately, these trends aim to provide better care to more people by increasing healthcare access and decreasing the cost while simultaneously improving population health. 44 | November-December 2017
THE GUTS OF HEALTHCARE BUILDINGS
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nce a healthcare facility is built, it must be filled with the needed equipment and supplies before it can begin operations. These companies represent cutting-edge methods and products used in the construction of healthcare facilities. Iconic Design Studio utilizes materials that stay germ-free; Forward Tilt furnishes healthcare facilities to reflect the look and feel of the local neighborhood; and triARC architecture & design (triARC) designs rooms that can be an emergency room one minute and a patient room the next. The seatback of a chair may seem unimportant when considering a healthcare project worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but for Kelli Berry, owner of Iconic Design Studio, new technology like the Medical Genie Copper Mesh is always noteworthy. She says, it’s the first copper antimicrobial mesh back specifically designed for clinical areas, which prevents the growth of micro-organisms and helps mitigate secondary hospital infections. Forward Tilt’s emphasis is on delivering fun, funky spaces like the HonorHealth Arcadia Clinic that creates a unique patient experience through different furniture, finishes and art. Another large component and current trend in healthcare construction is the development of the Ambulatory Surgery Center, in which rather than renting costly operating rooms, doctors are building and operating their own. Jill B. Hamblen, partner at triARC, says “Expeditious treatment in an outpatient, non-hospital setting is saving our healthcare system significant time and money” like for Dr. Daniel Liberman of Phoenix Spine in Goodyear.