MEDICAL OFFICE FLOOR PLAN

Wellness Centers: A Guide for the Design Professional (Wiley Series in Healthcare and Senior Living Design)

Bringing together the best aspects of ambulatory care, complementary medicine, and fitness clubs under one roof, wellness centers are poised to become an essential vehicle of healthcare delivery for the 21st century. Although wellness-based programs have been instituted by nearly every hospital system in North America, very little has been published on this rapidly emerging building type.

Wellness Centers enables design professionals and others to understand the fitness and healthcare requirements of these facilities, and to address them effectively in their work.

Providing essential insights into balancing the healthcare and retail demands of wellness centers, Joan Whaley Gallup reviews every step of the planning and development process, addressing project assessment, financing, programming, and marketing. She draws on her extensive expertise in creating wellness centers to cover a full range of development and design considerations, including design guidelines for lobby/waiting areas, clinical space, administrative areas, pools, saunas, and indoor gardens. Finally, an inspiring project portfolio profiles an impressive roster of successful wellness centers from around the world.

With useful information on code compliance, plus floor plans, schematic designs, and more, this book is a vital professional resource for anyone involved in wellness center design, planning, or management.

“The wellness center is the most positive, nurturing, life-affirming building type ever to evolve in the history of healthcare facilities design. . . . By turning inside out the trends of past centuries, we can now focus on wellness. We can create buildings that will nurture and sustain us, healing environments that will serve to support happy, life-enhancing activities. Centers for wellness are centers for life.”-from the Preface

The first book of its kind, Wellness Centers offers design professionals and others complete cutting-edge coverage of these complex new facilities, from planning and development issues to design guidelines and case examples of successful wellness centers from around the world. Written by an architect with extensive experience in the field, this book provides a firm foundation in wellness center design, planning, and management-essential reading for anyone involved in this rapidly growing area of healthcare design.

A previous residential client commissioned the design of a new Oral Surgery Clinic for his growing private practice. The ambulatory clinic is based within an existing medical office park in Silicon Valley and involves both a complete site and interior renovation. The state of the art facility will include two surgery rooms, consult room, reception, private surgeon’s office, business office, staff room and x-ray area.

The program is contained within a collection of curvilinear volumes composed of fabric, glass or plaster depending on each volume’s use and need for flexibility and privacy. The curvilinear forms provide an ease of dynamic circulation within the compact floor plan. A series of radiused ceiling planes reinforce the volume geometry while also concealing continuous lighting fixtures, linear mechanical diffusers and drapery track. Custom wall hung base cabinetry has been designed for the office and medical uses. Backlit draperies and ceiling planes create a calming, stylized experience not conventionally encountered at medical clinics.

The Jonah L. Larrick Student Center will close permanently on December 20, 2007, and be replaced with a new MCV Campus Recreation and Dining facility.

To succeed in today’s medical front office, you need a resource that will help you learn not only the principles of medical office administration but also how to apply your factual knowledge to the many complex scenarios that may arise in the medical office environment. Reflecting Brenda Potter’s first-hand experience as an active instructor, Medical Office Administration: A Worktext, 2nd Edition combines instruction and application to help you develop the knowledge and skills you need to think critically and respond confidently to the challenges you’ll encounter on the job. It includes procedures to be used with Medisoft Version 14 which allows you to practice the day-to-day activities as if you were in an actual office setting. An optional upgrade package is available which includes a Medisoft Version 14 Student software CD (package ISBN: 978-1-4377-0315-3).
The engaging worktext format reinforces chapter content and encourages you to apply what you’ve learned to real-world case studies, critical thinking exercises, role-playing exercises, and collaborative learning activities.
Written in a conversational writing style, making reading and absorbing the material easier and more enjoyable.
Real-world examples offer practical insight from the front lines of medical office administration.
Sample administrative procedures provide realistic practice managing common tasks with real-world office management software. An optional upgrade package includes the MediSoft Version 14 Student CD you can use for additional independent practice.
Provides more in-depth coverage of patient diversity than any other medical office text.
Key terms are defined throughout each chapter and in greater detail in a comprehensive glossary to clarify important concepts.
Procedure boxes throughout the book offer step-by-step instructions on how to perform specific administrative tasks.
Procedure Checklists, based on CAAHEP competencies, spell out the individual steps required to complete a full range of administrative procedures.
Evolve online features include interactive terminology flash cards, chapter review exercises, content updates, and Web links for additional reading.
HIPAA Hints boxes throughout the text familiarize you with essential state and federal compliance regulations you’ll encounter in practice.