Good practice is founded on recurrent review of analyses of what is revealed in well-designed, high-quality, transparent epidemiological studies.

Accurate, standardized, and granular data comes from community engagement and trust.

Hostile design discourages and limits use of a space and can make users feel unwelcome or unsafe.

Modern evidence-based designers’ lineage was prominently shaped between 1800 and 1970.

Healing and caregiving are affected by built environments in which health services are delivered or awaited.

Since the 1980s, science about how built environments influence human health has been used by architects, engineers, and designers to inform decisions about health care organizations’ structures and spaces.

When built environments in health care result from retrofits, they might be more costly than original constructions.

Hospital design standards were debated for decades and were ultimately ceded to nurses and architects. This article describes key moments along that trajectory.

This commentary on a case suggests merits and drawbacks of shared decision-making as one approach to Certificate of Need assessments.

The European Dementia Village is a pioneering health care site, and a US-based model is the Dementia Friendly City Center, which integrates service delivery into adaptive reuse and urban revitalization.