Before designing Sentara CarePlex Hospital, we asked staff, doctors, and patients to tell us what features would make the care and the patients’ healthcare experience the best possible. We designed the hospital to support their answers. The hospital features a...
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The Heart Hospital at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center WILKES-BARRE, PA
The Heart Hospital at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center provides state-of-the-art care to patients suffering from cardiovascular disease in the Wyoming Valley and surrounding areas. Staffed by community family practitioners, as well as community cardiologists,...
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Acute Care Hospital ROMFORD, ESSEX, UK
Located in the London borough of Havering, the Barking, Havering and Redbridge Acute Care Hospital (Havering Hospital) will include 859 beds. This facility will complement the local health authority's strategy for primary care and community health services, adding a...
The Villages Regional Hospital THE VILLAGES, FL
Designing a 60-bed facility for efficient expansion to 300 beds was the challenge facing the architects for The Villages Regional Hospital. The client projected the eventual expansion over the next 8 to 10 years. Many aspects—from minimizing demolition to sizing...
The Tyler Center ANNISTON, AL
Project category: New construction (completed November 2001) Chief administrator: Allen P. Fletcher, President & CEO, (256) 235-5253 Firm: Marshall Erdman & Associates, (608) 218-6411 Design team: Jim Lawrimore, Project Director; Steve Mason, Designer; Gary...
St. Vincent Randolph Hospital WINCHESTER, IN
Situated on 21 acres in rural Winchester, Indiana, is St. Vincent Randolph Hospital, the first new freestanding hospital in Randolph County in more than 80 years, and one of only a handful of new hospitals built in the state in the last 20 years. This project was...
The Health & Wellness Center by Doylestown Hospital WARRINGTON, PA
Project category: New construction (completed May 2001) Chief administrator: Rich Reif, President & CEO, (215) 345-2242 Firm: Marshall Erdman & Associates, (608) 218-6411 Design team: David A. Desilets, Project Director; Douglas K. Roberts, Project Architect;...
Fairfield Outpatient Clinic at Travis Air Force Base TRAVIS AFB, CA
Simplicity and structural expression characterize the VA Northern California Health Care System's new Fairfield Outpatient Clinic at Travis Air Force Base, which provides health services to veterans in Northern California. Located at Travis Air Force Base—the site of...
RELATING FACILITY DESIGN TO ORGANIZATION DESIGN
Most healthcare organizations maintain a strategic plan, reg-ularly updated to respond to changes in their competitive, economic, technical, and regulatory environments. As the context changes, strategy must keep pace and adapt. As more peo-ple move to a com-munity,...
Denton A. Cooley Building for the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital HOUSTON, TX
What makes the Denton A. Cooley Building so unique is its combination of functions all stacked vertically on a tight site, sharing entry, drop-off points, and vertical circulation with an existing facility. The connection integrates the functions and floor-to-floor...
Ruttenberg Ambulatory Cancer Treatment Center Mt. Sinai Medical Center NEW YORK, NY
Project category: Remodel/Renovation (completed September 2002) Chief administrator: Janet Gabrilove, MD, Head, Oncology Department, (212) 659-9657 Firm: Wank Adams Slavin Associates, LLP, (212) 420-1160 Design team: Leonard Franco, AIA, Partner; Rick Box, RA, Project...
Alameda Radiation Oncology HAYWARD, CA
This freestanding healthcare building is welcoming to patients from the outside and supportive of their needs on the inside. It is located at the terminus of the main entrance drive into the medical center, behind a fountain with natural boulders. The client wanted...











