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Inside the box: AHSC architects turns a VA hospital's dismal radiation oncology department into a clinical space that sets a new standard for public healthcare design.

Publication: Contract
Publication Date: 01-SEP-04
Format: Online - approximately 620 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Veteran's Administration hospitals are hardly known for their design excellence, even if their quality of care equals that found within the private healthcare system. A perfect example of this scenario existed on the Brooklyn Campus of the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, where the Radiation Oncology Department headed by a renowned physician was crammed into an unfortunate, 4,700-sq. ft. space that afforded neither privacy, comfort, nor dignity to patients--or staff, for that matter. Outpatients shared a small waiting area with inpatients on stretchers, there was no place for medical staff to...

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