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plied to any location and building type. To that end, Erdman has developed an urgent care playbook for clients that's adaptable to different shell constructions, column spacings, and so on. Similarly, the Warren Clinic design is a modular prototype. Triage rooms near the entrance to Allina WestHealth Medical Center in Plymouth, Minn., provide patients immediate assessment near registration. This allows staff to determine whether the urgent care or emergency track is most appropriate for care and begin lab tests, if needed, while patients wait for an exam room. MARK BAUMHOVER/BWBR In and out Once patients are inside the exam rooms, it's oftentimes less about the space itself and more about operations and creating efficiency in the treatment process. "We want people to get from door to door in less than an hour and we want their wait time before being seen by a physician to be measured in minutes," Brady says of his goals for the planning and design of Centra Care locations. At Warren Clinic, an onstage/offstage model was used, with imaging and lab located HCDmagazine.com 02.16 45
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