
CANADA – Overview of Healthcare Facilities Design Directions

- Current status healthcare facilities (age, size, condition)
- The Challenge
- Meeting the Challenge
- Insight into future trends
Canadian Centre for Healthcare Facilities (CCHF) is a national, not-for-profit association. CCHF’s goal is to help the healthcare facility sector achieve higher quality, more patient-focused and lower-cost healthcare environments. CCHF will do this by:
- Bringing together cross-disciplinary stakeholders in discussion forums and events (hospital administrators, clinical experts, researchers, engineers, architects, designers, construction managers)
- Canvassing leading edge developments, such as evidence-based design, design methodologies such as lean, patient experience…
- Building knowledge networks through research, case studies and expert input, developing discussion papers with the CCHF network



