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Project category: New construction (completed February 2012)

Chief administrator: Kellie Thames, Practice Administrator, (512) 978-9353

Firm: Lawrence Group Architects, Inc., (512) 391-1932

Design team: Raymond Chan, Civil (Chan & Partners); Jerry Garcia, Structural (Structures); Rick Guerra, MEP (Jose I. Guerra Inc.); Marla Bommarito, Interior Design (The Bommarito Group); Eleanor McKinney, Landscape Design(McKinney Studio)

Photography: ©2013 Paul Bardagjy Photography

Total building area (sq. ft.): 53,500

Project category: Project in progress (July 2015)

Chief administrator: Deborah Hayes, VP & Chief Hospital Officer/CNO, (513) 585-0557

Firm: SOM Ohio LLC, (312) 554-9090

Design team: Local Associate (Champlin Architecture); MEP/Fire Protection Engineering Consultant (Fosdick & Hilmer)

Photography: SOM Ohio LLC

Total building area (sq. ft.): 386,600 (new); 58,800 (renovation)

Construction cost/sq. ft.: Not available

Total construction cost (excluding land): Not available

Project category: New construction (completed June 2012)

Chief administrator: Mike Warren, CEO, (205) 939-9895

Firms: HKS, Inc., (214) 969-5599; Giattina Aycock Studio, (205) 933-9060

Design team: Architecture and Interiors (HKS, Inc.); Associate Architect (GA Architecture Studio, Inc.); Program Manager (KLMK Group, LLC); Structural Engineering Consultant (HKS Structural); MEP Consulting Engineer (CCRD Partners); Landscape Design (Macknally Ross Land Design)

Photography: HKS, Inc.

Among healthcare clients, a keen focus on improving the patient experience and satisfaction is the new normal. This focus has evolved to be one of the primary evaluation criteria for building owners when assessing facility improvements and construction projects. They need to ensure that any capital spent will result in improved patient outcomes, an excellent patient experience, and overall satisfaction with treatment.

A mother of a pediatric patient once asked our hospital design team for direction and diversion: “Get me to where I have to go, and make me forget why I’m going there.” It’s a simple request, but in reality, a very tall order.

Completion date: February 2013

Owner: University of Chicago Medicine

Architecture: Rafel Viñoly Architects (executive building design architect and architect of record), Cannon Design (consulting architect for medical facilities planning)

Interior design: Rafel Viñoly Architects

Engineering: Thornton Tomasetti, Drucker Zajdel Structural Engineers, Affiliated Engineers Inc., Primera Engineering, David Mason & Associates

The new Center for Care and Discovery (CCD) on the University of Chicago Medicine’s campus is a massive building. Designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects (New York) with Cannon Design (Chicago), the facility’s 1.2 million square feet are spread out across a relatively low 10-story profile on a 102,000-square-foot floor plate.

Prefabricated modular construction is no longer limited to smaller healthcare projects, as hospitals are beginning to consider the technology as a way to capture scheduling and construction efficiencies.

This post, originally published on July 12, 2013, was among Healthcare Design’s most popular articles and blogs of 2013. To see the full list, go to www.hcdmagazine.com/best-of-2013.

The healthcare industry is constantly evolving as technology, patient populations, care delivery models and reimbursement methods continuously change. The challenge for many healthcare owners is maintaining facilities that support the ongoing healthcare evolution, which means remodeling outdated facilities or building new.

If you know where to look for healthcare products at NeoCon, you’ll find plenty of them.

The annual exposition of commercial furnishings, fabrics, flooring, lighting, and accessories held at The Merchandise Mart in June featured more than 500,000 square feet of showroom and temporary exhibit space. It’s a lot of ground to cover.

But, if you only have one day to spend at NeoCon like I did, you go for the gold.

Nowhere in the nation do the three components of healthcare’s Triple Aim—better patient experience, better health of populations, and lower per capita costs—become more visible than in rural communities. Local hospitals play an important role in improving health and managing healthcare and patient costs by providing primary care, diagnostics, and outpatient services directly to their constituents.