From its 35-acre site, Northwest Community Hospital serves 17 suburban Chicago communities. Population growth and increased acuity drove the expansion of its emergency department to enable the number of cases to increase from 60,000 in 2003 to a projected 90,000 per...
Community involvement was an essential element in the early program definition process. The clinical and administrative leadership of the proposed project assembled a group, known as the Community Advisory Committee, whose lives had been touched by the experience of...
Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU) is a teaching and research hospital based in Portland, Oregon. OHSU wanted to remodel several of its inpatient units to improve internal processes and implement distinctive design changes. The initial completion of two of...
The goals for this major addition responded to the need for growth and expansion of nearly all services for the hospital, located in an area experiencing rapid population growth. The addition is the first part of a multiphase building and remodel program. The current...
The client needed to build a cost-efficient project that met the stringent budgetary and design requirements set forth by Kaiser. Gordon H Chong & Partners provided programming, planning, and interior design for the new medical office building—the first to...
Eisenhower Medical Center is committed to providing the highest-quality care center to the people of Coachella Valley. In California, cancer is the second most prevalent cause of death—two out of every five people will develop cancer at some time in their lives. In...
As we continue to grow in our understanding of the role that the built environment plays in the healing process, architects and caregivers need to work together to support the health and well-being of patients and of the providers who care for them. As we understand...
100 Navarre Place is located on a very tight site in an urban setting across from the primary hospital in South Bend, Indiana. An outpatient facility with retail space and internal connections to the other medical buildings, 100 Navarre Place was designed within the...
The new pediatric patient care unit in the East Tower of Valley Baptist Medical Center was designed to create a comforting healthcare environment for children. The U-shaped facility houses three nursing units on the fourth floor—one ICU and two acute care. The acute...
The soothing sounds of water falling over rocks and the healing touch of nature and light provide initial impressions for visitors entering the OSF Saint Anthony Ambulatory Care Center. Meeting the needs for sophisticated technology combined with private, comforting...
Memorial Sloan-Kettering's goal for its first freestanding ambulatory cancer care center outside Manhattan was to bring cancer care closer to its suburban patients in an uplifting and encouraging environment. “We insisted this be a facility that was welcoming,...
The Indiana Heart Hospital is not only Indiana's first dedicated heart hospital to meet the growing needs of patients and their families, but a partnership with GE Medical Systems, making The Indiana Heart Hospital the world's first paperless, filmless, and...
