Consolidating four satellite facilities into the comprehensive, multispecialty Dean East Clinic on Madison's east side enabled Dean Health System, Inc., to streamline its operations, enhance its image, and expand its market share in a facility designed to promote...
Based on an urgent need to provide cancer care services for the greater Concord, New Hampshire, community, Concord Hospital developed a new comprehensive cancer program housed in an 84,000-square-foot, four-level freestanding addition to their hospital. The difficulty...
Project category: New construction & Remodel/Renovation (December 2004) Chief administrator: John Fitzgerald, Chief Executive Officer, (703) 391-3600 Firm: Wilmot Sanz, Inc., (301) 590-2900 Design team: Rolando Sanz, Principal-in-Charge; Dwight Fincher,...
Project category: Conversion (completed December 2003) Chief administrator: John C. Johnson, President and CEO, (954) 492-5796 Firms: Miller Healthcare Services, (954) 763-8511; MGE Architects, (305) 444-0413; Miller Construction Company, (954) 764-6550 Design team:...
When this suburban hospital was conceived in 1970, it was state-of-the-art as a women's hospital. Over the course of 30 years, numerous renovations were done, but many without professional guidance. Looking too much like a small-town hospital because of lack of...
Green Clinic, a 37-physician multispecialty group in rural northern Louisiana, was seeking to improve patient care in the local community. The construction of a new surgical hospital provided such an opportunity, and the result is a dramatic departure from the...
Completed in July 2003, the Presbyterian Children's Emergency Department is dedicated exclusively to emergency care of children and is the only facility of its kind in the region. Located adjacent to the Presbyterian Hospital's main Emergency Department, the...
It is a given that hospital efficiency maximizes the revenues from every invested dollar. “Efficiency” relates to every system in the hospital—including lighting—and can be expressed in terms of staff performance and patient outcomes. Moreover, efficiency can be...
Project category: New construction (completed November 2003) Chief administrator: Dan Carriere, President and CEO, (905) 895-4521 Firm: Parkin Architects, Ltd., (416) 467-8000 Design team: John Christie, Project Director; May Chow, Project Architect; Mario Pistone,...
Curving glass, granite, a ribbon-like front entrance canopy, and steel details play off one another in the whimsical design approach of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. The new eight-story, 206-inpatient-bed structure opened February 2004 to...
The new Rehabilitation Center was the first project for University of North Carolina Hospitals after that organization became a Planetree Affiliate. The design sought to enhance the physical environment and support the patients’ and caregivers’ efforts. Color and...
Project category: New construction (completed June 2003) Chief administrator: Jonathan Flyte, Senior Vice-President, Facility Development, Covenant Healthcare, (414) 456-2389 Firm: Array Healthcare Facilities Solutions, (610) 270-0599 Design team: Douglas C. Lindsay,...
