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2. 7/31/2018 Microhospitals Offer New Ways To Expand Access To Care - Facilities Management Health Care Facilities Feature
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Microhospitals have a smaller footprint that makes them more ef cient and
convenient for patients, physicians, and nurses, with spaces designed to be exible and
adaptable.
E4H Environments for Health Architecture
By Rod Booze Health Care Facilities Article Use Policy
Over the last two years, more than a dozen U.S. states have seen the arrival
of a new breed of hospital — the “microhospital.” A microhospital is a facility
that, just like a community hospital, runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is
typically a 15,000- to 50,000-square-foot facility with between ten beds and
fifty beds, depending on market demand.
Microhospitals offer several upsides for healthcare providers. Their smaller
footprint makes these facilities more efficient and convenient for patients,
physicians, and nurses, with spaces designed to be flexible and adaptable.
Microhospitals can often have expedited design, development, and
construction approval processes, and are typically built more rapidly than
larger hospitals.
The community often benefits from the improved access to care thanks to
this approach; that’s especially true for rural and exurban residents on the far
edges of a large hospital service areas. Despite what the name may
suggest, microhospitals offer full medical services typically found in large
hospitals, including emergency care, pharmacy, lab results, imaging and
even surgery.
Like so much else in the healthcare industry, the decision to develop a
microhospital is often a strategic move. Most often, it represents an effort to

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stake their claim and reach an underserved population before their
competitors. In some cases, health systems are designing new freestanding
emergency departments and diagnostic and rehabilitation centers with the
explicit flexibility for them to evolve into future microhospitals.
Physician groups are also gravitating to this facility type as a way to gain
independence from the large hospital, providing the community with ease of
access. Microhospitals also provide improved efficiencies. Community
hospitals have become more streamlined in the urban setting, but those
same processes that drive efficiency in an urban setting are not applicable to
the rural setting. For several rural areas, microhospitals are a more
appropriately sized facility to address population health.
Providing healthcare in a rural setting, in particular, is a unique challenge due
to the remoteness of many locations. Microhospitals, freestanding
emergency departments, and outpatient clinics are some of the facility types
that are addressing this issue.
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