Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing

In the past, hospital design had more to do with décor than it did patient care. Due to an aging U.S. population and a national movement to improve to healthcare quality and patient safety, tides have turned. Evidence-based architectural design is the future, and the Health Sciences South Carolina-supported Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing is leading the way.

Headquartered at Clemson’s award-winning School of Architecture, the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing is engaged in interdisciplinary research on how the design of specific healthcare settings and features impact operational efficiency, therapeutic outcomes, patient safety, and patient/staff satisfaction. Its partners are working together to define optimum designs of patient rooms, surgical suites, furnishings, and fitments based on scientific research. Currently the CoEE is recruiting for two endowed chairs: one at Clemson University in architecture and health research and the other at MUSC in human factors medical research.

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