Objectives

The Hall Health renovation project is driven by our commitment to our student health mission and providing the highest possible quality of care.  We use a quality model called “PASCO”, which is an acronym for:

• Patient Safety
• Access
• Satisfaction
• Cost
• Outcome

Specific objectives of the renovation project are to:

• Increase the quality of care at HHPCC by improving the environment of care, including:
  • privacy,
  • safety and security,
  • layout efficiency,
  • comfortable furnishings,
  • temperature, and
  • aesthetics.
• Increase the access to care by providing “surge” space to meet high demand levels based on student schedules (this particularly affects our primary care and family health units).
• Increase access to mental health services and improve quality – particularly access and privacy.
• Renovate and increase space to meet “special” program demands, including:
  • public health services,
  • children of students,
  • sports medicine,
  • travel medicine, and
  • dermatology.
• Increase the capacity of the university’s health center for anticipated growth in demand by students (grow our “throughput”). Factors expected to increase the demand for student services at Hall Health include:
  • Increasing size of “on campus” residential student population (add 1,200 in 4 years [23% increase]; add total of 2,400 over 15 years).
  • Increasing medical and mental health care needs of students (a true evolution of the clinical domain of college student health - a nationwide phenomenon).
  • Diminishing primary care services in the surrounding community.
• Increase our revenue generation to further reduce the need for SAFC funding (the fraction of our budget from SAFC has fallen from 78% to 56% over the past 10 years).