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An Architectural History of US Community Hospitals.

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When hospitals became places of treatment and recovery rather than places of sickness and death, hospital-based patient care also changed. This article examines relationships between design-induced practice transformations in US… Click to show full abstract

When hospitals became places of treatment and recovery rather than places of sickness and death, hospital-based patient care also changed. This article examines relationships between design-induced practice transformations in US hospitals between the 1850s and 1980s and transformations in hospitals' roles in American communities, with a specific focus on underserved communities.

Keywords: history community; architectural history; community hospitals

Journal Title: AMA journal of ethics
Year Published: 2019

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