In early 2000, Elizabeth General Hospital merged with St. Elizabeth Hospital to form Trinitas Hospital. Previously, cancer care was split between the two campuses. Housing Radiation and Medical Oncology programs, the new 49,000-sq.-ft. Cancer Center was designed as a...
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Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute – Memorial City HOUSTON, TX
As part of an overall campus expansion and update, a new nine-story patient care tower was designed to integrate with the existing one-story, 1970s vintage hospital and a 1980s four-story addition. The Heart and Vascular Institute was planned to occupy 90,000 square...
The importance of looking around
One of my favorite characters in all of literature is Howard Roark, the über-architect protagonist of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. As many, if not most, of our readers know, Roark is beholden to no one for inspiration, guidance, or approval in creating his designs. He...
Anadolu Medical Center GEBZE, TURKEY
Affiliated with Johns Hopkins Medicine, Anadolu Medical Center was master planned to include a six-level medical center with a hospital, rehabilitation center, medical office building, medical research institute, nursing college, hotel, nurses' residence, staff...
growth amid solitude
Overlooking the busy North Shore of Lake Superior, the Lakewalk Surgery Center is a vision of perfect solitude. Nestled directly on the lake's scenic lakewalk in Duluth, Minnesota, the recently renovated medical arts facility offers patients and physicians a...
Fairview Hospital CLEVELAND, OH
Project category: New construction & Remodel/Renovation (completed January 2006) Chief administrator: Paul Slebodnik, Vice-President of Operations, (216) 476-4878 Firm: Hasenstab Architects, Inc., (330) 434-4464 Design team: Mark A. Ohlinger, AIA,...
Saint Clare's Hospital & Marshfield Clinic Weston Center WESTON, WI
Project category: New construction (completed May 2005) Chief administrator: Mary Krueger, President and COO, (715) 393-2500 Firm: Hammel, Green and Abrahamson (HGA), (414) 278-3401 Design team: Kurt Spiering, AIA, ACHA, Principal; Frank Nemeth, AIA, Project Designer,...
Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, MA
Project category: Addition (completed August 2005) Chief administrator: James Mandell, MD, President and CEO, (617) 355-6000 Firm: Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, (617) 423-1700 Design team: William Mead, AIA, ACHA, Principal-in-Charge; Uma Ramanathan, AIA,...
Rush Copley Medical Center AURORA, IL
Project category: New construction & Remodel/Renovation (completed September 2006) Chief administrator: Barry C. Finn, President and CEO, (630) 978-4976 Firm: Anderson Mikos Architects, Ltd., (630) 573-5149 Design team: Dave Mikos, Officer-in-Charge; Ralph Wiser,...
Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children WILMINGTON, DE
Young children, teenagers, staff, and parents are a lot of constituents to please in a small space. Comfortably fitting nine treatment bays, a spacious nurses' station, and a relaxation area for teenage patients into 2,700 square feet of renovated space created an...
Riverside Methodist Hospital—Center for Medical Education + Innovation Columbus, OH
Riverside Methodist Hospital's new Center for Medical Education + Innovation (CME+I) is a prototype teaching and clinical research facility unlike any other in the nation. As such, it was important for the facility's image to reflect and support that leadership role....
The Research Center at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, PA
The Research Center at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) is an integral part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's $575 million, 1.4 million-sq.-ft. CHP replacement project. The center's design will bring together multidisciplinary teams of...











