Graves Encourages Healthier Patient Room Design

In a speech before some of the nation's leading hospital and health care executives, award-winning architect and product designer Michael Graves explained how his innovative approach to healthcare design was a result of his personal experience of being suddenly stricken with paralysis and having to recuperate in eight different hospitals.
 
Graves addressed the standing-room only crowd during a special event hosted by the Antimicrobial Copper program of the Copper Development Association (CDA) at the 2012 Health Forum and the American Hospital Association's Leadership Summit in San Francisco, CA.  
 
In his lecture, "People First: Redesigning the Hospital Room," Graves described how he combined his architecture and product design expertise with his personal struggles maneuvering in hospital rooms to realize that these are "dumb rooms that we are making ... the money that should be spent on the patient room is instead being spent on hospital atriums to make them look like hotels." More