title: Building blocks. Roundtable discussion.
abstract: Former Hospitals & Health Networks executive editor Mark Hagland and Health Facilities Management editor Kurt Luchs and associate editor Catherine Quayle recently hosted a roundtable discussion on design and construction issues in health care. They wanted to know what health care senior executives and experts in the design and construction field thought about today's most pressing issues and biggest trends. Hagland and Luchs assembled a group or experts and executives in Chicago and set the tape rolling. Here are excerpts from the discussion.
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mesh_terms: D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends; D005379:Financing, Construction; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000639:trends*; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States