Monday, FEB 16 | 4:00 PM | Architecture Building RM100
Please join Ball State’s Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning for a lecture exploring the evolving role of healthcare within the urban environment presented by Douglas King.
For decades, placemaking and urban design have explored strategies for creating livable cities, while healthcare systems have simultaneously sought new ways to reach out to the communities they serve. Today, these parallel efforts are increasingly converging. Healthcare institutions face growing challenges, including inequitable access to care, motivating healthy behaviors, measuring return on investment, and reducing long-term healthcare costs. At the same time, cities are pursuing livability strategies to attract residents and businesses and strengthen economic vitality.
This session explores how hospitals and healthcare systems can function as active participants in the urban habitat by aligning population health strategies with livable city initiatives. Key drivers include shifts in healthcare reimbursement—from fee-for-service models to proactive, outcomes-based care—and a shared goal of improving community health while preventing costly chronic conditions.
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With over 40 years of advisory and planning experience in the healthcare sector, Doug King is an influencer in the healthcare facilities arena, blending intensive involvement in design and planning of large-scale health facilities with research and involvement in academia. He frequently speaks at healthcare conferences and universities across the US on design for high rise health facilities implementing population health design strategies, and most recently has been addressing the topic of – artificial intelligence and use of robotics in achieving logistics automation in healthcare facilities.