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Personal experience can inspire better design—even when that experience was challenging. DesignGroup Interior Designer Heather Clark found inspiration in tragedy. And today, detox patients in rural Pennsylvania have a resource uniquely designed to help them heal.

To better understand the needs and potential solutions for blood and marrow transplant (BMT) facilities, DesignGroup took a closer look at typical BMT patients and their treatments–both inpatient and ambulatory–and how design might help lower stress, simplify the experience, and improve outcomes.

DesignGroup leadership shares their thoughts as the firm’s 51st year draws to an end.

With thoughtful planning, architecture can help legitimize addiction as a health disorder that deserves respect and personal dignity. Here are four potentials that may help drive positive societal change.

A large majority of people who want to receive care don’t get it due to intangible concepts such as shame and invisibility. Architecture can help solve this problem. The first step: getting past the stigma.

Blood and marrow transplant (BMT) patients often face an isolated hospital stay that can last weeks. Because they’re highly immune-compromised, they’re often confined to clean environments with little to no physical contact with friends and family. Feelings of loneliness and a lack of control are common — all at a time when their life may hang in the balance.

DesignGroup has been a member of the Advisory Board, a national thinktank and leading provider of comprehensive performance improvement services for healthcare institutions, for over a decade. Each year we host a Future of Healthcare event for our clients, bringing in leading expertise from the Advisory Board (as well as our own big thinkers) to share their thoughts. These meetings are a powerful way to connect with healthcare leaders and discuss how design can help them achieve their mission.

It’s hard to imagine DesignGroup without Elliott in the building. He leaves in his wake a legacy of groundbreaking healthcare projects, long-lasting partnerships, and a meaningful influence on the way we approach work and life.

Explore how providers are addressing gaps in healthcare access.

DesignGroup’s design philosophy expresses how we work and think. Inside our firm, it’s a foundational vision. Outside the firm, it’s a differentiating approach that puts our clients and their communities at the center of everything we do. Here’s a closer look at how we define what we do every day.