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Visit the City of San Leandro website at www.sanleandro.org <br />The center features a mocked-up inpatient unit, <br />an operating room and a home environment to <br />address the entire spectrum of health care. It <br />considers itself to be an "ecosystem of <br />interoperability" that blends technologies and <br />people to increase efficiency and improve health <br />care. <br /> <br />The center's prototype patient rooms are colorful <br />and include texture, subdued lighting and a <br />welcoming "zone" for visitors to create serenity, <br />while the operating room of the future tests user- <br />friendly, interoperable technology. <br /> <br />Designs for a neonatal intensive care unit <br />incorporate semi-private rooms, on-hand <br />equipment for emergencies and a centralized <br />nursing station. <br /> <br />Starting out as pressboard and duck tape, 2,000 <br />square-foot micro-clinics have graduated from <br />prototype to the real world. Clinics designed as a <br />result of testing at the Garfield Center are now <br />up and running in 18 Kaiser Permanente <br />locations, designed to maximize efficiency with <br />cutting-edge technology and treatment rooms in <br />the middle of the clinic -- as per physician <br />request -- for better access. <br />The next step for the center, Liebermann said, is <br />looking at health and wellness outside the <br />traditional health care setting, such as in the <br />home where members can take advantage of <br />personal technology tools to monitor their health. <br /> <br />Failure Breeds Success <br />A common thread among Bay Area <br />organizations is a stalwart approach to failure. <br />Prototyping and experimenting may breed some <br />initial failures among the efforts of the Garfield <br />Center, but that translates into successfully <br />finding out what works and what doesn't, <br />Liebermann said. <br /> <br />Kreit shares Liebermann's philosophy about <br />successes arising out of the dust of failures. "It <br />shows you are am bitious," he said. "You get a <br />new idea, test it and refine it, and if the idea <br />doesn't work, learn from your mistakes early and <br />move on." <br />"Take enough risk that you actually have a <br />chance of failing," suggested Carol Bartz, the <br />recently ousted Yahoo! CEO, in an article in the <br />San Francisco Chronicle. <br /> <br /> <br />