GAINESVILLE - The Northeast Georgia Physicians Group is taking a new approach to the design of a new OB/GYN and Urology office by first building it out of cardboard.
"The purpose is to allow those - the practice and the public - to view it from a really holistic standpoint," said spokeswoman Staci Tunkel. "If you start from scratch, and you set it (the cardboard office) up and allow people to walk through it, and the team to walk through it, you can envision what would work better."
Tunkel said the cardboard office is designed to allow both patients and staff to see how an office will function before the walls go up, and determine if adjustments need to be made to make it more patient-friendly.
"We can consider how the patients will come in, from the registration phase all the way to the check out phase of the patient experience, we're able to imagine without the restraints of what is already there."
Unlike a small scale model, the cardboard office allows patients to come tour, walk through, and relay ideas about how the office could be better for their stay.
Tunkel said the office will have walls, hallways, and even furniture made from cardboard to help imagine the space, and move it around to see what design is best.
The cardboard offices are on display and open for a tour on the third floor in the medical offices adjacent to the new Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton on Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., and again at the Gainesville campus on the second floor of Medical Park I on Jesse Jewell Parkway on Friday from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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