Modern Healthcare September 12, 2015
If a child were to build a hospital out of Legos it might look like the new Children’s Hospital of Michigan Specialty Center, an irregularly shaped, multicolored facility slated to open in February in the Detroit suburb of Troy, Mich.
“Everybody drives by it and says, ‘I know that’s for kids, but I’m not sure what it is,’” said Ron Henry, chief facilities engineering and construction officer at Tenet Healthcare’s Detroit Medical Center, which is building the facility.
The look is appropriate because the facility is indeed for children. But the Lego analogy—building in pieces with the ability to easily convert the structure into something else—is apt for another reason.
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