Project category: Project in progress (May 2005) Chief administrator: Gary Kusnierz, Director, Affinity Health System Construction & Development, (920) 738-2015 Firm: Flad & Associates, (608) 238-2661 Design team: Fred Peterson, Principal-in-Charge; Laura...
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Howard Regional Health System Ambulatory Surgery Center KOKOMO, IN
Project category: New construction (completed August 2001) Chief administrator: James Alender, President and CEO, (765) 453-0702 Firm: URS Corporation, (317) 636-7469 Design team: Joseph P. Greenan, RA, Director of URS Health; Audrey J. Johnson, AIA, Project...
Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast DESTIN, FL
Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast is a 50-bed acute care hospital owned by the Sacred Heart Health System of Pensacola, Florida. Its two-floor design successfully captures the resort image prevalent in this seaside community in the Florida panhandle. Beyond...
The Elements of a Caring Environment
Contributing Authors NATURE: Jerry Smith, ASLA Senior Landscape Architect, Karlsberger Companies, Inc. COLOR: Barbara Dellinger, IIDA Principal/Director of Design, Oudens + Knoop Architects, PC HEALTHY BUILDINGS: Robin Guenther, AIA Principal, Guenther 5...
Bristol Hospital Perioperative Center NEW BRITAIN, CT
Project category: New construction & Remodel/Renovation (completed May 2003) Chief administrator: John Smith, Senior Vice-President, (860) 585-3225 Firm: Moser Pilon Nelson/Architects, LLC, (860) 563-6164 Design team: James Bell, AIA, ACHA, Architect (Moser Pilon...
Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital OMAHA, NE
Our client wanted to create a facility providing the most innovative surgical care in an environment devoted to patient comfort. The project provides for growth of services and reflects the vision of providing a personalized, patient-focused care environment. The...
Spring Harbor Hospital WESTBROOK, ME
“It's awesome,” one young adolescent patient said upon arrival. “It's cheery, bright, and there's even a playground!” Maine's newest freestanding psychiatric facility, Spring Harbor Hospital, is for people of all ages who experience serious episodes of mental illness...
Metropolitan Lithotriptor Associates, PC WHITE PLAINS, NY
Metropolitan Lithotriptor Associates, PC, expanded its Westchester facility into 5,600 square feet of a former mechanical space, within the same building it previously occupied, to introduce new services that previously could not be provided because of lack of space....
Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital Mountain Pavilion ROANOKE, VA
The Mountain Pavilion Addition secures Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital's place in this growing region as Southwest Virginia's most advanced healthcare facility. The eight-story, 149,000-square-foot wing adds three 12-bed intensive care units, three 20-bed...
Alexian Brothers Medical Center Rehabilitation Hospital ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL
This new building replaces the current rehabilitation hospital, consolidating all of the current programs on campus in one location and bringing the program up to date with all current state regulatory guidelines. The building was designed to meet inpatient...
The bar has been raised…
I recently read in one of the many monthly magazines I subscribe to (with all good intention of reading them when they arrive) about the scientific theory of the “expectation factor.” I was intrigued because I have long believed that to achieve we need to “keep our...
Applying Design and Color to Healing
Theories of design and color and their effect on healing have been circulating for centuries. The challenge of putting these theories into practice today lies in gathering disparate pieces of information to reach a design solution that exceeds patient, provider, and...











