With the healthcare industry experiencing a myriad of challenges due to COVID-19, Health Facilities Management (HFM) magazine recently convened various design experts to discuss how the pandemic is shaping the future of hospital design. The interviewees included Mark Chrisman, healthcare practice director at Henderson Engineers, and his colleague Jake Katzenberger, a mechanical technical leader at the firm.

Chrisman and Katzenberger discussed the flexibility of stand-alone air recirculators with HEPA filters, the benefits of limiting intrahospital patient movement, how hospital vestibules can be designed to be more accommodating, the perks of standalone areas for treating ailments, telehealth, and more.

The read the story, titled “Designing the post-pandemic hospital,” visit https://bit.ly/3C2iF4n.