Healthcare by design

Business Week writes about how hospital design saves lives.

I've always been curious about how health care centers are set up. Whenever I've gone - at least to the older public hospitals - they seem like one of the least effective uses of space. I've long held onto a dream to start a group that it would focus on making waiting rooms, lobbies and nurses' stations more personable and humane. But of course, it would be great if the entire healthcare facility was personable and humane.

(Incidentally, I tried to find a good photo of an "exemplary facility" as cited by the Center for Health Design, but could not find a good one - or the photos were protected. I guess there is major competition out there for this work.)