Ali Ata Looks at How Hospitals and Hotels are Connected Today
Ali Ata Explains the Modern Hospital-Hotel Link healthcareitnews.com As Ali Ata points out, the facilities and overall appearance of many new hospitals in the United States have undergone a major upgrade over the last two decades. While some hospitals still look like the cold infirmaries of yesteryear, newer institutions are now often built to look more like hotels. In fact, many older hospitals have even gone through major renovations to become more welcoming and relaxing to their patients and visitors. Because of these changes, real estate investors and developers have slowly been giving notice to hospitals more than ever before, says real estate veteran Ali Ata. In fact, he indicates that this so-called hospital revolution began when developers started looking for ways to make hospitals more pleasant. As a result, they tried to find designs that attempted to lessen the generally stressful atmosphere of a modern hospital, which led them to take cues from the hospitalit...