title: SAFE (strategy, assessment, flexibility, and efficiency) for future use? Stages in master planning, programming, and architectural design.
abstract: Health care facility design must incorporate four key elements: Strategy, Assessment, Flexibility, and Efficiency. These SAFE elements will offer the organization the greatest return on investment, because they encompass both present needs and future demand. They respect the integrated nature of functional operations by clustering them in ways that permit growth or consolidation. In the rapidly changing health care environment, flexibility is fundamental to successful design.
authors.affiliation: van Dijk, Pace, Westlake & Partners, Cleveland, OH.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Westlake
mesh_terms: D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration*; D001108:Architecture / Q000592:standards*; D002173:Cancer Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005160:Facility Design and Construction / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008961:Models, Structural; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology