title: Thinking ahead. Three hospitals demonstrate that you can plan for the future, even if you can't forsee it.
abstract: Predicting the future is next to impossible, but that doesn't grant health care administrators a pass at planning for it. How do hospitals build new facilities to anticipate trends that they haven't heard of yet? Here's a look at three hospitals--a rural facility, a new set of operating rooms and a new ED--that are taking the risk.
authors.forename: Ashok
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Selvam
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005544:Forecasting; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction; D006752:Hospital Planning; D006780:Hospitals, Rural; D007087:Illinois; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009518:New York; D009873:Operating Rooms; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D015143:Philadelphia; D018907:Privacy; D013523:Surgical Equipment / Q000639:trends