New hospitals may resemble malls.
Hospital designers and planners are adopting several features of the ubiquitous retail shopping mall to create a new model for a user-friendly, market-driven health care facility. Also, they are building and renovating hospitals in stages, which allows maximum flexibility in adapting to increasingly rapid changes in reimbursement patterns, clinical priorities and patient demand.
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