The healthcare network of the future must serve a population of nine billion

Ronald L. Skaggs, FAIA Chairman and CEO HKS Inc. Dallas, Texas Joseph G Sprague, FAIA Director of Health Facilities HKS Inc. Dallas, Texas George J Mann, AIA Professor College of Architecture, Texas A & M College Station, Texas

This article was presented at the 1998 International Conference and Exhibition on Health Facility Planning, Design, and Construction. From the introduction please note the following quote:

"What the future will bring in terms of opportunity, change, and challenges is uncertain. However, existing trends in the healthcare industry can perhaps offer some insight. We feel that the century will see a change in how architectural and related-firms approach engineering the design of health facilities. The client for firms will evolve from individual and isolated facilities to a healthcare network.

Accordingly, architectural firms will be compelled to develop new skills, services, emphases, and organizational structures in order to respond to the rapidly changing needs and demands of this new client. It is our hope to present a visionary view of the possibilities of this health care network of the future Networks have great potential for positively and economically impacting health care of the populations served."

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