Hospitals

Natural and artificial light have a significant effect on the experience of hospital patients and can actually reduce stress and hospital time, says Rosalyn Cama, an interior designer and researcher specializes in health care design.

Unable to bear the financial burden of serving the community's poor, inner-city nonprofit hospitals have been shutting down while investing in suburban hospitals, where patients are more likely to be insured.

This article from Governing looks at the role of higher education and medical facilities in keeping urban areas alive.

Hospitals are being built and renovated all across the country -- a trend responding to the aging baby boomer population.