From the elegant, glass-enclosed, monumental stair to the peaceful views of wooded landscape, the South Carolina Oncology Associates (SCOA) facility best illustrates the shift in healthcare philosophy from the treatment of illness to the healing of the whole...
The Ten Keys to Success We have defined ten key elements for guiding the owner in managing a successful facility project. They boil down to the owner's taking the lead and arranging a fully partnered team, along with putting together a detailed plan of...
Riverside Medical Center, set between the Kankakee River and Highway 113, faced a challenge when it was learned that Highway 113 would be expanded from two lanes to five. The majority of the facility's parking is located across the highway from the main entrance. The...
Project category: Remodel/Renovation (completed November 2003) Chief administrator: Dennis Egan, President and CEO, (519) 749-4300 Firm: Parkin Architects, Ltd., (416) 467-8000 Design team: Robin Snell, Project Architect; Francy Kralik, Interior Designer; Dawn...
The Health Park at WakeMed, located in Raleigh, North Carolina, provides critical rehabilitation care for patients in this metropolitan area. However, the facility faced issues such as inefficient internal circulation, lack of space for rehabilitation activities and...
The Center for Health Design (CHD) has successfully achieved one of the goals for its Environmental Standards Council (ESC), which is to develop language that would be the basis for what has now been taken forward into the “shaded text”—the language proposed by the...
The new building includes a 224-bed consolidation of high-acuity-level nursing units. A new surgical department of 22 operating rooms was designed to include ORs with intraoperative imaging capability and zones of flexibility. The surgical suite is aligned with...
Project category: New construction (completed December 2003) Chief administrator: Anita Brown, Chancellor, (704) 783-1555 Firm: Wright McGraw Beyer Architects, (704) 535-6374 Design team: David Wright, AIA, Principal-in-Charge, Project Manager; Michael Moore, AIA,...
Project category: Project in progress (December 2004) Chief administrator: Dyer Michell, President and CEO, (352) 351-7200 Firms: Harvard Jolly, Inc., (813) 286-8206; Euthenics, (727) 823-6633 Design team: Alejandro Gonzalez, RA, Project Manager (Harvard Jolly, Inc.);...
Riverview's Women's Pavilion was designed to provide new state-of-the-art women's services for a rapidly growing community. Focus groups established a “one-stop shop” concept where women receive comprehensive services, including maternity services; diagnostic and...
Project category: New construction (completed September 2002) Chief administrator: John Roberts, President and COO, (704) 283-3460 Firm: FreemanWhite, Inc., (704) 583-2327 Design team: Franklin H. Brooks, AIA, ACHA, Managing Principal; Chris Richardson, AIA,...
The new 371,000-square-foot, five-story Parrish Medical Center replaces its 40-year-old, outdated predecessor that was ill configured to serve today's outpatient volume. The 210-bed replacement facility reinforces PMC's healing environment philosophy through the...
