Healing Gardens
Medical facility administrators are quickly achieving a myriad of benefits to patients by installing healing gardens on their facilities. For example, researchers have indicated that healing garden experiences can speed patient recovery periods and help them to feel more comfortable. Additionally, facility employees can use the garden space to reduce stress levels and maintain excellence in care.
Healing gardens are often installed on new construction projects. However, many facilities may be able to transform existing plaza decks, roofing systems, and even unused parking areas into a healing garden.
Healing gardens can be tailored for the specific patient population at the facility. These can include psychiatric gardens, children’s gardens, nursing home gardens, hospice gardens, gardens for the visually impaired, therapeutic horticulture gardens, and more.
The development of healing gardens for existing structures is an evolution of our vegetated retrofit of existing structures effort. FEI also supports Historic Preservation projects and Sustainable Building Envelope concepts.