Planetree was founded by a patient 25 years ago as a nonprofit organization to advocate for the patient's perspective in healthcare. Planetree's first demonstration site, opened in 1985, was a 13-bed medical-surgical unit in San Francisco, which brought together the...
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Louis Lasky Memorial Medical and Dental Center NEW YORK, NY
The Louis Lasky Memorial Medical and Dental Center is the flagship facility for the National Organization of Industrial Trade Unions Insurance Trust Fund. The organization, which provides specialized medical and dental care to thousands of dues-paying members...
Advocate Christ Medical Center—Imaging Center OAK LAWN, IL
Named one of the top 100 teaching hospitals in the United States, and faced with the prospect of losing patients to off-site imaging and diagnostic centers, Advocate Christ Medical Center recognized the need to offer its patients and staff a preeminent imaging center...
J, Edward Lundy Pavilion, Mercy Medical Center CEDAR RAPIDS, IA
The “Mercy touch” has been synonymous with excellent, compassionate healthcare in eastern Iowa since 1900. That's when a small group of Catholic nuns opened a 15-bed hospital in Cedar Rapids. The Sisters of Mercy moved in 1903 to a new 100-bed hospital at a downtown...
The Palm Beach County Health Clinic WEST PALM BEACH, FL
To facilitate efficiency, implement cost savings, and ease the travel for county residents using the outpatient facilities, the Florida Department of Health and Palm Beach County combined several of their facilities located throughout the county into one new building....
New York University Medical Center—Health Center NEW YORK, NY
Project category: New construction (completed January 2000) Chief administrator: Patricia DeLorenzo, Senior Director, (212) 443-1034 Firm: Larsen Shein Ginsberg Snyder, LLP, (212) 803-0300 Design team: Robert G. Larsen, FAIA, Managing Partner; George Shear,...
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando ORLANDO, FL
The client's request was twofold: update their campus master plan and add a new, 220,000-gross-square-foot, state-of-the-art cancer treatment facility. This addition was to be seamlessly integrated into the existing hospital in terms of function and aesthetics—while...
William Beaumont Hospital—Troy Radiation Oncology Center ROYAL OAK, MI
Quality patient care combined with the most advanced cancer treatments led to enormous growth in the William Beaumont Hospital—Troy's Radiation Oncology Department over the past decade. This growth required doubling the size of the department. The original goal of the...
The Wisconsin Heart Hospital WAUWATOSA, WI
The Wisconsin Heart Hospital in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, is an example of the trend toward less-invasive heart care approaches—more catheter-based treatments and fewer open-heart surgeries. The hospital will have six interventional labs and three operating rooms....
Baystate Health System, The Center for Cancer Care SPRINGFIELD, MA
The Center for Cancer Care will be an ambulatory care facility offering a comprehensive program of radiation and systemic oncology. The design objective for this new three-story building is to create a serene, patient-focused environment. Medical delivery processes...
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center LONG BEACH, CA
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center (LBMMC), the community's Trauma Center and the area's largest facility, needed expansion for its current needs and anticipated future growth, to enable it to serve the growing community. In remodeling the existing Emergency...
Greenwich Fertility and IVF Center GREENWICH, CT
Greenwich Hospital wanted to create a new fertility center that would change the perspective of outpatient healthcare by creating a comfortable, calm atmosphere that would soothe patients’ anxieties and stress. The client's objectives were to create a spa-like...











