Evolving Beyond Best Practices: In modern healthcare design, elements like natural light, clear wayfinding, and reduced visual clutter are considered foundational to creating healing environments. While these are important, we believe they represent best practices, not the full picture.
True wellness stems from reducing stress for both patients and staff, which goes beyond these foundational elements.
Redefining Patient Interaction with Healthcare Services: Traditional healthcare design often requires patients to navigate multiple services across the facility, adding unnecessary stress.
Real change occurs when the focus shifts to bringing services directly to the patient, creating a more service-oriented experience:
Larger exam rooms accommodate multiple services in one location, reducing patient movement.
Dedicated staff corridors separate staff and equipment from patient circulation, enhancing patient comfort and experience.
Flexible spaces support longer appointment times, allowing for more personalized and comprehensive care.
Integrating Healthcare into Communities: Moving away from isolated medical campuses, healthcare facilities can be incorporated into mixed-use developments, alongside community hubs and everyday destinations, making healthcare a natural part of daily life.
Blurring the lines between healthcare and other community activities helps reduces the stress often associated with visiting healthcare spaces, fostering a sense of familiarity and accessibility.
This patient-centered approach fosters healing while aligning healthcare with the rhythms of everyday life, creating seamless community integration.
kmd+ with 65 years of multi-disciplinary, innovative architectural practice……. And working across the globe …..20 countries and over 30 states….we bring a perspective that’s is honed from the experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders with unique perspectives and needs……….
kmd+ fearlessly delivers transformative spaces for the built environment by creating buildings and places that serve the wellbeing of both the inhabitants and the community at large………
kmd+ is a medium-sized firm that is capable of tackling initiatives, both large and small, with a non-hierarchical “all hands-on deck and bring your tools” attitude that fosters more effective solution making and higher value for our clients….
kmd+ our global practice was created by being at the forefront of the reliance on partnerships long before most organizations followed suit and perfected remote working and long before the pandemic…….
kmd+ stands for….more than us…. build relationships and rely on partners….. adding new techniques and methods…. adding new and emerging models….and adding new business propositions that complement our Design thinking approach.
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Capability trumps Capacity every time. The days when organizations singularly focused on growing capacity as the primary means for long term success….are long gone. The world has learned (especially during the pandemic) that scale can be achieved in various ways without compromising the primary factor for success. An organizations’ continuous development of enhanced Capability ensures long term success. Ryan Stevens
We all need to stop thinking that the only “valuable solutions come from Giants”! With full access and implementation of technology by all members of a team and the organization, the work of many can be done by a few experienced individuals……with far greater accuracy and realtime innovation. Tasos
Age is only number…it’s about maintaining relevance and staying connected to today’s issues and how things get done today……..Lari Diaz
Despite all the past lessons and evidence that is gathered….and thought to be so conclusively useful, most data proved to not to be the indicators of the future alone. A dogged hunt for what is next, combined with the realization that convergence of countless things is all around us……drives us to continuously challenge and rethink the nature of innovation and our solutions. Convergence is happening at an ever increasing rate. Charles Parks
Personal care means you too! I can’t care for you unless I take care of myself. The pandemic taught us this…….Jason McCleary
Planning for today is just that. Without accommodating for the possibility that the future will change many things…….including long term viability of the built environment nor will a true measure of sustainability. This fact is particularly true for healthcare and highly intricate facilities. A Swiss watch maybe a beautiful instrument, but they are extremely difficult to modify/retrofit when the demands of time change or needs to measure/report the impacts of time…….Chris Rubright
The world is our headquarters. Location today is far less important than it was before. Coming and sitting with our clients and partners frequently is mandatory, but that does not mean that work isn’t done somewhere else……Fred Schreck
Developing internal and external Partnerships is key to success. Everyone can and should be our Partner…………Tom Turkington
Fast Company: “the monthly American business magazine” would not exist if every good organization was “Slow Company” and was organized and ran like the post office.
Tom Turkington
Fascination with where the world is today and allowing it to drive your focus as a design organization is essential. We can’t be fascinated with everything if we wish to succeed at innovation. We cant mistakenly try to pursue everything, all at once. Design matters most if you pick your battles……..Ryan Stevens
Fast Company: “the monthly American business magazine” would not exist if every good organization was a “Slow Company” and was organized like and ran like the post office.
