Precincts and Development Zones
An academic health center can stimulate and support its surrounding community and be a vital catalyst for community resilience and elements that foster healthy populations.
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Health Corridors
Innovation Districts
Resiliency: Emergency Preparedness
Community Connections
Town and gown relationships between academic health centers and surrounding community components have often been strained because the centers may thrive while surrounding areas suffer. Each center and their community have unique issues. Planning a center in isolation leaves opportunities on the table; however, planning with the community can take the positives of both and create synergies. Mash-ups of urban and academic health planning can strengthen both and provide a foundation for innovation districts.
Health-oriented developments are becoming a catalyst for creating healthy communities. There is no better center of a health-oriented development than an academic health center where research, education and care are integrated to advance health and focus the expertise within the surrounding community.
Health Corridors
Historically, university science parks were developed to connect industry and academia in underdeveloped areas within reasonable proximity. The new model is to create a “sense of place” around the academic health center and research institutions by placing innovation districts adjacent to the center. Close collaboration between the institution and corporate partners — and a live-work-play lifestyle — has been a catalyst for innovation.
Innovation Districts
Academic health centers have been significantly impacted by hurricanes, flooding, earthquakes and health disasters such as pathogen outbreaks and pandemics — and so have the communities in which they reside. As the health and educational center of their community, planning for continuity of operations and damage mitigation and recovery is critical in these specialized facilities. With plans in place ahead of any emergency scenario, staff, caregivers, researchers and other personnel should know exactly how to respond to assist their communities.
Resiliency: Emergency Preparedness
Redundancies in air handling systems and separation of patients through cohorting at different scales can reduce the spread of an infectious disease and coordinate operations during a pandemic outbreak.
Four goals for health-oriented developments:
Disaster Risk
Health Center Readiness
Pandemic Preparedness
Academic Health
Centers
Health
Corridors
Innovation Districts
Mash-ups of urban and academic environments create a unique equation: 1 + 1 = 3
Drills and planning that establish awareness among personnel make a world of difference when an emergency situation arises.
Every area of the U.S. is at risk of disaster or emergency in one form or another. Preparation in both planning and design is mission critical.
Living, working and playing in a sustainable,
walkable community
Providing generational connectivity
Reducing health disparities
Catalyzing a healthy community
Resiliency: Emergency Preparedness
Innovation Districts
Health Corridors
Community Connections
An Academic Health Center can stimulate and support its surrounding community and be a vital catalyst for community resilience and elements that foster healthy populations.
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