They are building all single rooms so patients will not have to share their room with 2 or 3 others with beds separated by only curtains. This will give patients more privacy especially when visitors are there. How can you get any rest when your roommates or their visitors are loud? The goal is to prevent the spread of sickness from patient to patient. Remember the old photos of patient wards? Imagine an airborne disease going from one end to the other getting every patient sick? As long as staff practices good hand hygiene the spread of infections should be minimized. The number of male versus female patients will not matter since you will no longer have to match patient's gender in a multiple bed room. Some patients could only be in the same room if they had the same conditions or diseases. Imagine all of the extra sinks, bathrooms and plumbing needed that adds to the cost. Also I heard that it was built to resist natural disasters.
That is not remotely true.
Oh, good, you appear to understand this better than I. How are you affiliated with the healthcare industry and in what capacity?
You're one one who brought it up first, so maybe you can share your dissertation on healthcare economics first.
I'm not in medicine - I changed majors after my mom convinced me I'd be a shitty doctor. She would know because she was one. PT - eventually Director - at a hospital outside Boston for almost 4 decades. She dealt extensively with Neponset Valley Health System, then Caritas Christi, then briefly Cerberus Capital, and finally Steward. I was her nightly sounding board in high school, weekly sounding board in college, and monthly sounding board as an adult: she reviled the insurers she engaged with/fought against seemingly on a daily basis. Nothing was as bad as Steward. Ralph de la Torre deserves a rusty shiv to the spleen while locked up in Shirley.
It's on you to prove the statement you made, rather than expect us to simply accept it. But suffice it to say, my work is intimately involved with Health Care finance and often adjacent to facilities construction.
...and yet those brown boxes with glass stripes still look nicer to me, and would look nicer after a few Boston winters too. One Boston winter and that white Alucobond we have now will look like cheap vinyl siding, streaks and spotting and all. This looks like a medical version of the Kensington, which we unanimously dogged on for 47 pages.
It's because the T doesn't want to build this and the legislature, as a whole, still hates the city.
This design feels appropriately contemporary for the US capital of STEM higher education and modern health care.
The project doesn't really align with the T's current investment objectives (below), which is essentially to keep the system running. By the time they've allocated the funding for the critical "lights-on" projects, there's little to no money left for expansion. Consequently, there was no additional funding for the project in the most recent CIP cycle, but there is $19M in programmed spending (for design and other soft costs) through FY30.