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EDITORIAL
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

Hank Adams

MEET IN THE MIDDLE
Wellness is one place where healthcare and
hospitality converge, and lessons can be shared
By Jennifer Kovacs Silvis

Wayne Barger

SMITHGROUP

Carolyn BaRoss
Jeffrey Brand
Sam Burnette

PERKINS+WILL

PERKINS EASTMAN

EARL S WENSSON ASSOCIATES

Sheila F. Cahnman
JUMPG ARDEN CONSULTING LLC

Thomas W. Chessum
ACCORDING TO THE Global Wellness Institute, the

global wellness economy in 2017 was $4.2 trillion, growing from $3.7 trillion in 2015-that represents a 6.4 percent annual growth rate, nearly
twice the speed of global economic growth in that
same time frame. The wellness sectors seeing the
biggest boost are the spa industry, wellness tourism, and wellness real estate.
It's those facts and figures that inspired the launch
of a Wellness Pavilion at HD Expo, a trade show
dedicated to the hospitality design industry (a sister
brand to Healthcare Design that's part of Emerald Expositions' design group).
It's also what landed me on that show's stage in May to moderate a panel on
how hospitality is inspiring healthcare design, and vice versa. (For more, see
my Editorial in the May 2019 issue.)
The latter may sound like a stretch. Can healthcare really inspire hospitality? On the surface, perhaps not. After all, as panelist Lionel Ohayon, founder of
ICrave, remarked, no matter how great the design, at the end of the day, a hospital will still feel like a hospital-and no one actually wants to stay in a hospital.
But as hospitality grapples with the wellness trend and how to best support
the desires of hotel guests with everything from luxury spa retreats to
sustainable bedding and linens, healthcare is on a similar trajectory. Goals
to improve patient experience via design really all boil down to a desire for
built environments to work in concert with care delivery-all in an effort to
make people feel well. So while healthcare and hospitality may feel like polar
opposites at times, in this particular sense, they have a lot in common.
So what can healthcare teach hospitality about wellness? For one, as panelist Mary Frazier, managing principal at EwingCole, pointed out, a risk-averse
industry like healthcare understands the power of research. We've long proven what remains intangible in other industry sectors. We know for a fact that
elements such as access to daylight, nature views, private patient rooms, and
family accommodations all have profound effects on critical factors like outcomes and length of stay.
In another panel I attended in the Wellness Pavilion, Jaloyn Fockler,
executive vice president of Delos, said she sees huge opportunity to innovate
lighting design to further support hospitality's wellness initiatives. Again, I
thought of what healthcare, as well as senior living, has accomplished-not just
in terms of expansive daylighting but also in understanding the benefits for
staff and patients by mimicking circadian cycles through LED technology. It's
an approach that certainly could find a way into hospitality settings.
While we may not see threads of healthcare aesthetics running though
hospitality any time soon, the billions of dollars at stake in the wellness game
may benefit from some healthcare design tactics. 

HDR

CO ARCHITECTS

James Crispino
G ENSLER

Christine Hester Devens
Mary Frazier

AECOM

EWINGCOLE

Jocelyn Lum Frederick
HC TANG RAM DESIGN

Catherine L. Gow

F RANCIS CAUFFMAN

Natalie Miovski Hagerty
THE CHILDRE N'S HOS PITAL OF PHILADELPHIA

Laurel Harrison

STANTEC

Suzen L. Heeley
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER

Scott Holmes
Walter Jones

BWBR

METROHEALTH SYSTEM

Julie Kent

TRINITY HEALTH

Bryan Langlands
Michael Lied
Jain Malkin

G BBN ARCHITECTS
J AIN MALKIN INC.

Mike McKay
Victoria Navarro

NBBJ

UW HEALTH

ADVOCATE AURORA HEALTH

Don Orndoff

KAISER PERMANENTE

Diane R.K. Osan
Chris Powers
Andrew Quirk

CANNONDESIGN

HCA HEALTHCARE

S KANSKA USA BUILDING

William D. Repichowskyj
E4H ARCHITECTURE

Kim Shinn
TLC ENGINEERING FOR ARCHITECTURE

Janet H. Sisolak
UT MD A NDERS ON CANCER CENTER

Karl R. Sonnenberg
ZIMMER GU NS UL F RASCA ARCHITECTS LLP

Kurt Spiering
Steve Stokes

HGA

G RESHAM SMITH

Jeffrey C. Stouffer

HKS INC.

Paul E. Strohm
Jocelyn Stroupe

CANNONDESIGN

Joshua A. Theodore
Travis Tyson
Gary L. Vance

HOK

LEO A DALY

CLEVELAND CLINIC
VANCE CONSULTING

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