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Creating on-stage and off-stage areas is critical.
This allows a necessary separation from patient
care and treatment spaces, and provides staff
with the distance required to refresh and recharge.
areas is critical, too. This allows a necessary
separation from patient care and treatment
spaces, especially to provide staff with the distance required to refresh and recharge.
And while strides are being made to better
accommodate staff, hospitals' primary focus
remains on the patient experience. As such, staff
"extras" are often considered to the extent of
providing convenience and support, as opposed
to rolling out luxury accommodations. "Every
feature must provide benefit to the bottom line-
for example, enhancing efficiency, saving time,
relieving stress, and/or improving communications," Schilling says.
Take five
Because patient families may not always appreciate seeing staff relaxing instead of working,
the ideal is to locate break rooms at the ends of
units, says Jennifer Aliber, a principal at Shepley Bulfinch (Boston). At the same time, if these
Workstations and supply
alcoves are tucked between
patient rooms for easy access
at Miami Valley Hospital in
Centerville, Ohio, designed
by NBBJ and constructed by
Skanska.
KEVIN REEVES
Well-laid plans
Historically, the design of staff spaces came as an
afterthought, with dedicated areas often carved out
of windowless corners. "Staff was left to steal or
borrow from other program spaces to accommodate
needs for respite, breaks, and education," says Bob
Schilling, senior principal at Champlin Architecture
(Cincinnati).
Today, though, staff real estate is often considered during the programmatic phase of development. While the Facility Guidelines Institute's
Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospital
and Outpatient Facilities recommends allocating a
minimum of 100 square feet for staff lounges and
areas of respite, Haley Driscoll, director of healthcare interior design at Francis Cauffman (Philadelphia), says that comfortable staff space can be
created with as a little as 80 square feet.
"It's less about allocated square footage per person and more about the way in which spaces are
organized, and where and how they can be strategically located within the facility to maximize flexibility
and add value," BaRoss agrees.
As for location of break rooms, convenient
access from work areas is important. However,
available space in proximity to patients is generally limited, so optimally siting these rooms can be
a challenge, Schilling says. Additionally, balancing
location with the creation of on-stage and off-stage
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