Key Trends Driving Healthcare Leaders to Embrace Prefab and Modular Construction

Fremont, CA: When healthcare facilities need to change a patient-focused space, removing barriers that cause disruption, downtime, and health and safety are critical elements to manage.

Without a doubt, the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified these pressures and created new ones. It has forced hospitals and other healthcare facilities to quickly adapt their spaces to handle an overwhelming and unprecedented surge in patients, protect caregivers, and remain fully operational while doing both.

The challenge? Construction in an occupied healthcare space has intense requirements that, if not met, can mean delays, ballooning budgets, and risks to care.

What’s behind this shift to prefab and modular construction solutions in the healthcare sector? We’ve identified these three trends shaping healthcare leaders’ decision-making.

Hospitals Budgets are Being Lessened

A major challenge for healthcare facilities is rising costs amid a steadily growing patient population. In the US, for example, those cost pressures are combined with a drop in reimbursements from public and private insurance, putting a tighter squeeze on margins.

For many, the only place to mitigate costs is in their space by repurposing the built environment with minimal disruption to healthcare services.

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