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This paper discusses the importance of social mechanisms as one of key elements for achieving optimal healing environment-OHE for oncology patients' rooms, by examining the reality of some oncology centers that have been shown to focus solely on providing medical treatment without taking into account the social, psychological, emotional and spiritual needs of patients, which in turn negatively affect the treatment of patients and the speed of recovery, especially adolescents and young adults–AYA where the challenges of Emotional and social resulting from cancer with challenges resulting from adolescence and adulthood. This paper aims to extract social mechanisms for oncology patient rooms, and indicate their role and priorities for their application in meeting the needs of patients in the AYA category, mitigating their disorders, and their impact on patients' health outcomes. This paper attempts to reach the best appropriate models to achieve these mechanisms, by analyzing the current situation of selected samples from case study of the South Egypt Cancer Institute in Asyut. Through this analysis, the research paper presents a set of results and recommendations that should be followed to develop patient rooms that take into account the provision of social mechanisms and the priorities of their application depending on the degree of impact of each element in order to reach the optimal setting for the optimal healing environment for the room. This paper relies the analytical descriptive approach to dealing with the research problem by studying the literature that dealt with the characterization and analysis of the needs of AYA oncologists in patient rooms, identifying the disorders and effects of the disease on this group, and thus identifying the appropriate social mechanisms for this group that can be met in the rooms. This was followed by an analytical and introspective approach through the use of various research tools and procedures to analyze the status quo to see how these mechanisms are achieved within different models of patient rooms and how they affect patient health outcomes, and then to analyze the data and results reached. Finally, this paper concludes with a comprehensive chart of social mechanisms’ matrix suitable optimal healing environment for AYA pati [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]