Health Progress

    Special Section: Design and Healing

Increasingly, hospital design and site planning for hospitals is reflecting research showing that good design has positive effects on both health and healing. Our articles review designs of four new Catholic hospitals and show how models from the past are molding the future.

Models from Past Mold the Future in Evidence-Based Health Care Design 
By Dougal G. Hewittt

St. Francis Medical Center: New Urbanism Drives Hospital Site Plan
By Peter J. Bernard

• St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center: Devoted to Advanced Healing
  
• Mercy Gilbert Medical Center: A Restful Place to Pause and Heal
  
• Providence Newberg Medical Center: Living Lightly on the Land
  
• Open Spaces, Sacred Places 
• Research Highlights Design's Effects on Health  

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