In a recent article in Healthcare Design Magazine “Research Weighs Effects of Healthcare Workspaces on Team-based Care," authors Jennifer DeBose and Ross Westlake describes an approach to a novel outpatient clinic design at Emory Healthcare Patient-Centered Primary Care Clinic, “a three-provider practice serving Emory Healthcare employees.” The authors describe how the clinic “is completely accessible to patients—in fact, patients enter the clinic via the team room to access the exam rooms. This has the advantage of making the patients highly aware that an entire team is responsible for their care, not just an individual doctor. Additionally, it gives patients and staff multiple opportunities to interact beyond the exam room.
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