Adaptive reuse in the healthcare industry: repurposing abandoned buildings to serve medical missions

Abstract Background Adaptive reuse—the practice of identifying, acquiring, renovating, and placing back into service a building or similar structure for a purpose different than that for which it was originally designed—offers great potential for addressing the spatial expansion needs of healthcare...

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Main Authors: James K. Elrod, John L. Fortenberry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-07-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-017-2339-4