The Houston Methodist Hospital's $249 million outpatient center opened in 2010 on a one-and-a-half city block city in the Texas Medical Center in Houston.
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PHOTO TOUR: The Christ Hospital Joint & Spine Center
Established in 1889, The Christ Hospital faced growing service needs on an aging campus in Cincinnati’s Mount Auburn neighborhood. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM; Chicago) was hired to design a 1.4 million-square-foot master plan for the campus, prioritizing areas for development based on site-wide impact and potential to improve patient, physician, and staff experience.
Take 5 With Deb Sheehan
In this series, Healthcare Design asks leading healthcare design professionals, firms, and owners to tell us what’s got their attention and share some ideas on the subject.
Deb Sheehan is executive director, client strategies leader, at CannonDesign (Chicago). Here, she shares her thoughts on wearable technology, the OR of the future, and the importance of well-designed staff spaces.
1. Renewed focus on employee spaces
Creating A Destination Campus For Wellness And Inclusion
Seeking to improve the health of their community while creating a destination campus for wellness and inclusion, three organizations—Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids, and Carol Van Andel Healthy Living Center—have come together as part of the Mary Free Bed YMCA, in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The 117,000-square-foot Y opened in December 2015 on a 36-acre campus and is designed to be accessible, providing health and wellness activities and programs for disabled and able-bodied individuals.
PHOTO TOUR: St. Joseph’s Health Centre CIBC Just For Kids Clinic
St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto wanted kids walking into its CIBC Just For Kids Clinic to feel at ease inside the hospital clinic environment. The goal was to create a more playful, child-friendly environment by combining art and architecture to encourage a sense of discovery and engagement, making the clinic feel more like a playground than a waiting room.
FIRST LOOK: Baptist Health South Florida
After several years of planning and gathering feedback from the community, Baptist Health South Florida (BHSF) is building its first outpatient facility in Miami Beach, Fla.
Getting Smart With Technology
When leaders of Humber River Hospital set out to build a replacement hospital in Toronto, they didn’t just want to incorporate the latest technologies, such as a real-time location system (RTLS), integrated bedside terminals, or automated guided vehicles (AGVs), into the 1.8 million-square-foot facility.
First Look: Artemed China FTZ Hospital
Seeking to expand into a new market, Artemed Group, a hospital and senior living facility operator based in Germany, is working with Gresham, Smith and Partners (Nashville, Tenn.) to design its first hospital in China. Located in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, Artemed aims for the 200-bed hospital to serve as a model that can be replicated across China for providing high-quality care at a reasonable cost.
PHOTO TOUR: Stanford Children’s Health Specialty Services—Sunnyvale
The Stanford Children’s Health Specialty Services outpatient facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., opened its doors in May 2016, expanding access to outpatient care for children and adolescents as well as couples dealing with fertility issues.
FACE TIME: Marvina Williams
Marvina Williams grew up in a household with four sisters and a mother who always wanted to be a nurse. “But with WWII, the economy, and having five daughters, she wasn’t able to achieve that goal,” says Williams.
Still, her dream made an impression on her children, all of whom found careers in healthcare, including Williams who is a registered nurse and has served in several different clinical environments, including as director of a trauma center.
Lessons In Inpatient Unit Design
Only a few years had passed between the opening of Cooper University Hospital’s Roberts Pavilion in Camden, N.J., and the need to fit out two shell floors to add med/surg inpatient beds. Still, the project team didn’t want to simply duplicate the same design without first looking for new ideas and areas for improvement.
Building A Better Inpatient Unit
The search for the right inpatient unit design shouldn’t just take into account size, footprint, and type of care being provided—it’s also about looking at an organization’s philosophy on patient engagement, care delivery, and technology in order to plan and build the best environment.
“There’s no right or wrong way,” says Sheila Cahnman, president of JumpGarden Consulting LLC (Wilmette, Ill.). “Each facility has its own operational ideal.”
