Beating Burnout: Penny Houchens Shares Strategies for Designing Healthcare Staff Support Spaces

March 18, 2022

Gresham Smith Senior Interior Designer Penny Houchens, NCIDQ, IIDA, LEED AP, Lean, has authored an article for Medical Construction & Design magazine discussing how the built environment can elevate the staff experience and workplace culture in healthcare facilities. In the March/April 2022 issue, she examines the Gresham Smith-designed 92-bed inpatient facility at UF Health Jacksonville, using data from a post-occupancy evaluation to draw conclusions about the impact of staff support space design on staff satisfaction and turnover rates.

Check out Penny’s article, titled “Beating the Burnout Blues,” here.