Rehabilitation Centre, Warri: Post-Occupancy evaluation of selected Rehabilitation Centres in Nigeria

Healthcare facilities are built not merely to support and promote cutting edge medicine technology, patient safety, and high-quality patient care, but also to welcome patients, their families, careers in a psychosocially supportive therapeutic atmosphere. The architectural design requirements necessary for creating an ideal healing environment for drug addicts and proposed the guidelines for improving rehabilitation centres in Warri. The study adopted thematic analysis, descriptive analysis, and design as data analysis techniques. Explicity, the study investigated the healing environment of the Warri rehabilitation centers-built years ago;examined whether space, daylighting, and other architectural features in the rehabilitation center facilitate the process; The finding established that the lighting of the rehabilitation centers needs to be enhanced and the space could be improved to be more ambiance. The study also revealed that daylighting, space and other architectural features in the rehabilitation center facilitate the healing process.