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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-07-01
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Series: | BMC Health Services Research |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-017-2339-4 |