"In the sprawl scenario, everybody has to drive out to the medical center, they park in a huge surface parking lot, they sit in a bland waiting room, eventually get called for their appointment, then drive home," Lombard said.
"Take the same clinic and make it the village center in an urban area and maybe the waiting room has public space -- where you can get a coffee and pastry, buy a newspaper and do your laundry. We are saying `let's look at our medical facilities as being good neighbors and functioning more like town centers,'"
This year's theme of the Global Business Forum, a campus-wide marquee event organized by the School of Business, is The Business of Health Care: Defining the Future. Lombard and the Dean participated in the January event, with the School of Architecture serving as the initial venue for the opening of the forum.
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