Monday, FEB 16 | 4:00 PM | Architecture Building RM100

Please join Ball State’s Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning for a lecture exploring the evolving role of healthcare within the urban environment presented by Douglas King.

For decades, placemaking and urban design have explored strategies for creating livable cities, while healthcare systems have simultaneously sought new ways to reach out to the communities they serve. Today, these parallel efforts are increasingly converging. Healthcare institutions face growing challenges, including inequitable access to care, motivating healthy behaviors, measuring return on investment, and reducing long-term healthcare costs. At the same time, cities are pursuing livability strategies to attract residents and businesses and strengthen economic vitality.

This session explores how hospitals and healthcare systems can function as active participants in the urban habitat by aligning population health strategies with livable city initiatives. Key drivers include shifts in healthcare reimbursement—from fee-for-service models to proactive, outcomes-based care—and a shared goal of improving community health while preventing costly chronic conditions.

The lecture examines community health delivery from three perspectives:

• Healthcare providers, responding to reimbursement changes and population health mandates
• Civic and community leadership, advancing livable city strategies
• Nontraditional healthcare providers, such as the YMCA and retail-based services, entering the reimbursable healthcare market

BIO

With over 40 years of advisory and planning experience in the healthcare sector, Doug King is an influencer in the healthcare facilities arena, blending intensive involvement in design and planning of large-scale health facilities with research and involvement in academia. He frequently speaks at healthcare conferences and universities across the US on design for high rise health facilities implementing population health design strategies, and most recently has been addressing the topic of – artificial intelligence and use of robotics in achieving logistics automation in healthcare facilities.

He has conducted numerous media interviews with noted publications such as The New York Times, Architizer, Dezeen, Engineering News-Record, and various media outlets throughout the Province of Quebec related to high-rise healthcare work conducted in that region.

Doug has authored the only two published industry articles focused on the design and construction of high-rise health facilities, both available through the CTBUH Journal archives. He actively shares thought leadership through conferences, publications, and social media. While leading complex, award-winning healthcare projects, Doug has also conducted IRB-approved, funded research and held academic appointments at the University of Illinois’ Chicago Health Studio, Kansas University’s Health and Wellness Graduate Program, Jilin University in Zhuhai, China, and currently at Northwestern University. He has lectured widely, including for IIT’s Tall and Super Tall Buildings Program, Chang’an University in Xi’an, China, and interior design programs at Drexel University and the University of Central Oklahoma.

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ECAP lectures are free and open to the public.
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