MINNESOTA
JUNE 2022
THE INDEPENDENT MEDICAL BUSINESS JOURNAL
Volume XXXVI, No. 03
PHYSICIAN Ambulatory Specialty Center Construction Finding the intended purpose BY: DANIEL K. ZISMER, PhD, GARY S. SCHWARTZ, MD, MHA, AND ELLIOT D. ZISMER MS, MBA
T Minnesota’s Healthcare Workforce Shortage A growing crisis BY TERI FRITSMA, PhD
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ealth care workforce shortages are not new. For years leading up to the COVID19 pandemic, communities around Minnesota—particularly those outside major metropolitan areas—have had too few physicians, nurses, mental health, dental and direct care providers to meet both the hiring demand and the need for services. Some of these shortages might be more accurately described as a maldistribution, with rural and small town communities lacking adequate staffing even after accounting for population size. Minnesota’s Healthcare Workforce Shortage to page 104
he father of the modern skyscraper, Louis Henry Sullivan, is credited with the maxim, “form follows function”. Sullivan believed that a building should enable its intended purpose. Finding “the intended purpose” of an ambulatory medical specialty center should precede facility design and construction. The balance of this article focuses on the presentation of a blueprint for the thinking that leads to consensus on form and function of the integrative ambulatory specialty center. Ambulatory Specialty Center Construction to page 124
