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Microhospitals keep costs down while catering to the masses

Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, September 1, 2019

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By John Palmer

As the need for increased healthcare services becomes more widespread in even the most remote parts of the country, providers continue to look for the most cost-efficient way to fill that need.

Yet the solution now being adopted isn’t to make hospitals bigger—instead, facility operators are thinking smaller.

A new building trend toward creating facilities known as microhospitals is fast becoming the answer to getting basic ambulatory care services to more people, while avoiding the costs associated with constructing large buildings.

Microhospitals are springing up in sprawling areas that are home to large populations of people who might not need (or have access to) care at a larger metropolitan hospital, but still need inpatient services that an urgent care or walk-in clinic can’t provide.

In many expansive communities such as Las Vegas and Houston, these locations are being built as feeder facilities, which are distributed throughout the region as part of a network, and are scalable to meet the strategic goals of healthcare organizations.

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