An Architectural History of US Community Hospitals.

When hospitals became places of treatment and recovery rather than places of sickness and death, hospital-based patient care also changed. This article examines relationships between design-induced practice transformations in US hospitals between the 1850s and 1980s and transformations in hospitals' roles in American communities, with a specific focus on underserved communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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