Disney designs a hospital, Nursing homes next?

[TroyWDW]

For those of you who'll be 80 when your DVC contract expires and are wishing that there will be a Disney Nursing Home waiting for you. There's hope.

A new $145M inpatient care center in Colorado was recently built and Disney's imagineers partnered with the builder to design the facility.

Click here: USA Today article - The Disney Designed Hospital

Sounds like Disney introduced many of the concepts it uses in it's parks and resorts

- Cast members being on stage
- Patients and family are guests
- Backstage areas for employees (utilidors, etc.)

The news stand printed copy had several pictures. The facility and rooms look like a resort and not a hospital. It was strikingly different. There are even VIP suites which have even more features than the standard private suites. A nights stay is only $1120.

I wonder if there will also be:
- Value season and Premium season
- Water view and Standard view
- Early Entry days: Mondays are maternity, Tuesdays are cardiac care, Wednesdays are physical therapy
- Pin trading with the nurses and doctors
- Character greetings with Tung D. Pressor, Sir Inge, and Peter Pan's brother: Bed Pan
- Can an afternoon parade be far behind

Medical testing and procedures become attractions. For instance instead of going to radiology for an X-ray, you take a ride on the Buzz Lightyear X-Ray 5000 and do battle with electromagnetic aliens. An MRI could be themed like Mission:Space where they slip you into a space capsule and you travel through space to Planet Endor.

The possibilities are endless...

Troy

 

[Doug7856]

Did the article say if you could you DVC points?

 

[JimC]

Thanks for sharing this. It is a smart move for that facility. Now if they can maintain that quality. Healthcare is a high tech, high cost proposition in the U.S. Reimbursements and patient census often are inadequate to provide proper finding, even with philanthropic support.

It is interesting to see that they were able to do that at a daily cost equal to the traditional hospital model. The article suggested that this would be very difficult to achieve with a rehab of an existing facility due to constraints with the existing buildings. So if an existing hospital wanted to do this on their current site it would mean closing (patient and practice transfers), demolition and rebuild. I suspect that would require a much higher level of philanthropic and government support, but it might be worth the investment.

 

[TroyWDW]

Originally posted by Doug7856
Did the article say if you could you DVC points?

<table border=3 cellpadding=7><tr><td><b>Procedure</b></td><td><b>DVC Points</b></td></tr><tr><td>Knee surgery</td><td>287 points</td></tr><tr><td>Cosmetic enhancements</td><td>340 points</td></tr><tr><td>Open heart surgery</td><td>998 points</td></tr></table>
Start banking if your cholesterol is high.

Troy

 

[fkj2]

TroyWDW,

I'd really think I'd bought a bargain if I could get those procedures done one day for that amount of points!!!! Now that would be a buy-in promotion.

 

[mkutch]

I better buy more points!!!!Maybe there could be a donate points service for surgeries!