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Assigned to design a state-of-the-art emergency department while simultaneously creating a calm, positive healing environment, the team developed a plan for a holistic theme combining cutting-edge technology with organic elements and creating a modern healing...

Project category: New construction (completed October 2004) Chief administrator: Ken Shull, Administrator, (828) 526-1400 Firm: Howell Rusk Dodson Architects, (404) 266-9631 Design team: Grady Dale Lee, AIA, Project Manager/Project Architect (Howell Rusk Dodson...

Project category: New construction & Remodel/Renovation (completed June 2005) Chief administrator: Dennis Sisto, President and CEO, (707) 252-4411 Firms: Montanio Design Group, Inc., (805) 522-5662; PDC Facilities, Inc., (714) 245-0144; Pults & Associates...

When South Miami Hospital opened in 1960, it was a 100-bed institution serving a small suburban community in metropolitan Miami. Today, the 336-bed hospital is growing along with its population, enlarging and updating its physical plant and enhancing its reputation in...

This new six-story hospital includes 220 beds, two four-story medical office buildings with a connecting atrium, and a seven-story parking structure for 1,464 cars. This 21st-century hospital was designed with an emphasis on patients and their families. A clear...

Project category: New construction (completed December 2005) Chief administrator: Ed Epperson, CEO, (775) 885-4412 Firm: Moon Mayoras Architects, Inc., (619) 235-9780 Design team: Project Architecture (Moon Mayoras Architects, Inc.); Structural Engineering (Degenkolb...

MultiCare Health System's Mary Bridge Children's Health Center provides a home for 10 specialty clinics plus laboratory, imaging, and pharmacy services. A gift shop, bistro, conference facility, data center, and Mary Bridge Foundation offices complete the program....

The new Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center—a multidisciplinary facility dedicated to providing world-class basic science, translational science, and clinical service—is the latest addition to the east quadrant of the University of California, San Diego campus,...

Project category: New construction & Remodel/Renovation (completed January 2006) Chief administrator: Bryant R. Hanson, President and CEO, (812) 949-5500 Firms: ARTEKNA, (317) 955-5090; Laughlin Millea Hillman Architecture, LLC, (812) 944-2222 Design team: Timothy...

Project category: New construction (completed December 2004) Chief administrator: Steve West, CEO, (765) 348-0300 Firm: BSA LifeStructures, (317) 819-7878 Design team: Richard Fetz, Principal-in-Charge; Erin Like, Project Designer; Daniel Miles, Engineering Project...

Project category: New construction (completed December 2005) Chief administrator: John Goodnow, CEO for Benefis Healthcare, (406) 455-5470 Firms: NTDSTICHLER Architecture, (858) 565-4440; CTA, Inc., (406) 248-7455 Design team: Wayne Hunter, AIA, ACHE,...