Dive Brief:
- Mount Sinai Health System is starting the first phase of its over $500 million project to rebuild Mount Sinai Beth Israel and create the new Mount Sinai Downtown network in New York City, which will include expansion and renovation at three major sites with more than 35 operating and procedure rooms and 16 physician practice locations.
- Mount Sinai CEO Kenneth Davis said the project will transform how patients access and receive care services in downtown New York.
- Construction on a brand new hospital will begin in 2018, and is expected to be completed in 2020.
Dive Insight:
The massive Mount Sinai project is representative of larger trends in healthcare toward evidence-based design and outpatient services. The increasing amount of evidence that shows physical design has an impact on outcomes has caused health systems to pay more attention to the architecture of their facilities. Meanwhile, the introduction of value-based reimbursement models is driving more patients away from inpatient services.
Healthcare settings and their design have implications for patients, healthcare professionals, family members, and communities as a whole. As decision-makers gain greater understanding of the relationship between physical design and these players, facilities are being reconfigured to optimize care delivery. Experiments with evidence-based design appear to be improving outcomes in some ways.
Mount Sinai made the renovation project announcement in May, arguing that using technology to update the aging infrastructure is necessary in order to meet the needs of the modern healthcare landscape, Healthcare IT News reports.