Construction on new Sask. Hospital will include focus on patient-friendly aesthetics
The patients and staff at the current Saskatchewan hospital describe it as “depressing, confined and no good” but there’s hope those descriptors will change when the new facility opens in 2018.
“This is absolutely a patient first venture,” Linda Shynkaruk, the hospital’s director, said. “For patients and staff I think it is very important for the new facility to have a therapeutic feel to it. It’s going to be very bright, very calming. Also having new equipment and furniture will help boost patients and staff.”
Shynkaruk surveyed numerous patients who said they want more natural light, more privacy, more bathrooms and temperature control.
“I want patients to feel welcome, I want them to feel safe and I want them to have the right to seek treatment in a beautiful calming home like environment,” she said.