In recent years the design of hospitals that emulate hotels has generated a warming trend in this often forbiddingly cold, institutional building type. Evidence-based design, stemming from scientific studies that show patients get better faster in settings with daylight, views, plants, and physical and acoustical privacy, gave impetus to this revolution (record, August 2009, page 73). It usually helps if the hospital occupies a significant slice of nature, with vistas of trees, other vegetation, and water. But some hospitals, such as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, have created a noninstitutional environment on an existing, dense campus downtown.
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