Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) has a distinguished hundred-year history of innovation in medical science and patient care. Each year it admits more than 33,000 inpatients and serves roughly half a million outpatients. It operates some of the largest...
Project category: New construction & Remodel/Renovation (completed March 2007) Chief administrator: Charles Scott, Chief Executive Officer, (678) 604-1001 Firm: CDH Partners, Inc., (678) 784-3708 Design team: Tom Danner, Senior Project Manager and Designer; Troy...
NOVA Medical Group is a fully integrated medical practice providing an innovative approach to patient services. By combining a medical spa, internal medicine, and urgent care, NOVA can provide treatments for patients both conventionally and homeopathically—an...
Project category: New construction (completed October 2006) Chief administrator: Irene M. Cumming, President and CEO, (913) 588-8877 Firm: RTKL Associates, Inc., (214) 468-7701 Design team: Donald R. DeBord, Jr., AIA, NCARB, Principal-in-Charge; Beau Herr, RIBA,...
Project category: Project in progress (completed June 2010) Chief administrator: Pat Sullivan, Director, (224) 610-3771 Firm: RLF, (407) 647-1039 Design team: Robert Yohe, Project Manager/Medical Planner; Jason Towers, Project Designer; Cindy McGinnis, Project...
The Heart Hospital at SwedishAmerican addresses the needs of patients, families, and staff through architecture emblematic of the quality care delivered there. Based on the hospital's care models, nursing units are eight-room pods that significantly reduce walking...
Advanced diagnostic imaging equipment presents a huge set of design challenges for healthcare facilities. Issues involve the planning for the technology itself, the rapid obsolescence and replacement of that technology, and safety concerns for both patients and staff....
An exhibit of 29 black and white photographs is encouraging an atmosphere of communication and education at The Gathering Place, a community-based cancer support center in Beachwood, Ohio. Opened on June 4, the day after National Cancer Survivors Day, and ending on...
Children's Hospital Boston at Waltham began life as a satellite campus for Children's Hospital Boston (for more on the main campus, see page 20), but it soon grew to have its own distinct identity. Designed by Boston-based architectural firm Steffian Bradley...
Gina Adams noticed that her daughter's color had paled slightly as she slept in her intensive care bed surrounded by all sorts of medical devices. She glanced towards the door of the private room and could see the face of her ICU nurse peering over the PC at the...
These days many hospitals are buying into the seemingly self-evident concept that their environments should be among the cleanest and safest—in a word, the “green-est”—available to society, but such was not always the case. As recently as seven years ago, when a young...
Colorful tile TOLI's Linotesta and Viale tiles, seen here at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, Nashville, as designed by Earl Swenson Associates, feature rich colors and ease of maintenance. Both Linotesta and Viale resist staining, cracking, and chipping and reduce...
