Now available for pre-order – December 2025

Designing Healthcare for All Persons: Lessons from Rehabilitation

At Enviah, we believe that space is more than just a backdrop – it is a powerful agent that can transform health outcomes, empower individuals, and advance equity. That’s why we are proud to announce the upcoming release the timely new book by our founder, Lorissa MacAllister, PhD

This important work explores how the convergence of design, policy, and person-centered care can shape more inclusive and equitable healthcare environments. Whether you are a healthcare leader, architect, clinical practitioner, or advocate, this book offers a compelling framework to initiate critical conversations and discussions and move toward spaces that are intentionally promoting dignity, autonomy, and well-being.

What you will discover:

• The environment we live and work in either supports or restricts our independence and well-being. Rehabilitation design offers a powerful model for supporting a range of human needs – Physical, sensory, cognitive or emotional.
• Room-by-room guidance. Practical insights on how to align spatial design with human function to promote healing, inclusion, and long-term independence.
• A call to action: It’s time to move healthcare environments beyond minimum compliance and towards designs that create meaningful impact and actively promote healing for all persons.

This book is an essential first step in reframing how we think about accessibility, not just as removing barriers, it’s about designing spaces that welcome, empower, and support all people.

LINK: Designing Healthcare Facilities for all Persons: Lessons from Rehabilitation