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Form follows function in cardboard office prototypes
Medical Group adopts lean design ideas to improve efficiency
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Jorge Pineda walks around on stilts taping the tops of the cardboard sheets together at Northeast Georgia Medical Center Medical Park 1 on Friday in Gainesville. Northeast Georgia Medical Center is building cardboard offices as an exercise that will allow for patient’s needs to be considered before the physician’s office is built. - photo by Erin O. Smith
In an effort to better design medical offices for efficiency and patient care, Northeast Georgia Physicians Group is building a couple prototypes — out of cardboard. The cardboard offices will be on display this week at Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton and at the Northeast Georgia Physicians Group Medical Park 1 building in Gainesville, where the public is invited to come and offer feedback. “For the first time ever, we are designing physician’s offices not based on architecture but based on patients and families,” said Karlie Vavrinek, administrative director at Northeast Georgia Physicians Group.