York, Ontario’s West Park Healthcare Centre will transform its 115-year old campus into a world-class, integrated campus of care, with a new hospital at its core. Before the new hospital becomes reality, it’s ensuring the building will be optimally designed to help patients get their lives back via the Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE), an initiative to improve healthcare design. The POE evaluates how the new hospital will affect employees, patients and their families, and operational efficiencies, for six design elements: Outdoor/Green Spaces; Family Zones; Integrated Bedside Terminals; Congregate Dining; Team Substations; and Decentralized Patient Registration. As part of an evidence-based design process, feedback is being collected from stakeholders on how the hospital supports the organization and its staff, volunteers, patients and patient friends and family. It will result in a report to Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
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