Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is home to the Jimmy Fund Clinic, a globally recognized center for the treatment and research of pediatric cancers. This recently renovated outpatient clinic provided an opportunity to expand and augment the joint Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center.
One’s a large hospital in the heart of a treasured, vibrant American city. Another’s a tony ambulatory center that embraces its serene California surroundings. There’s a bright and graphically bold cancer center in one of the rainiest regions of the U.S. and a 16-story hospital nestled in the mountains of China. Some facilities are modern and angular, while others are homey with subdued, enveloping palettes. They range in services from pediatrics to specialty care, from wellness to emergency, and everything in between.
Hardin Memorial Hospital (HMH) is a county-owned facility in Elizabethtown, Ky. Its oldest section was built in 1954, with numerous additions and renovations. Of its 300 inpatient beds, fewer than 50 percent were private rooms, and its most recent “new” patient rooms were constructed 30 years ago. Thus, HMH wanted to improve its inpatient care by increasing the number of private rooms as well as providing modern, patient-centered accommodations.
It’s two days post-Healthcare Design Expo & Conference as I write this. It was a great show in my completely unbiased opinion—we’ll tell you all about it in our show review coverage in the January/February 2016 issue. And as the event buzz finally starts to wear off, I can start to focus on the future.
The St. Louis Children’s Hospital Specialty Care Center is one of only a few stand-alone, comprehensive outpatient facilities in the U.S. focused exclusively on patients up to the age of 21. The center, designed by CannonDesign and located approximately 12 miles from the main St. Louis Children’s Hospital campus in a St. Louis suburb, provides community-based care in a more accessible, convenient, and less intimidating environment.
Stanford Health Care’s newest National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Cancer Center South Bay, designed by Ratcliff (Emeryville, Calif.), opened July 2015 in San Jose, Calif. The four-story, 70,000-square-foot medical office building offers patients coordinated outpatient cancer services in one location, including diagnostic, treatment, and support services.
Americans “have a very short attention span,” warned Dr. Bruce Ribner, medical director of the Emory University Hospital Serious Communicable Diseases Unit, during a Capitol Hill briefing in early October. As the editor of a magazine that’s constantly on the lookout for what’s next, I have to admit, he’s got a point. When the Ebola epidemic hit the States, we were very focused on creating and sharing content on containment units and other design strategies for infection control.
Developer/owner Meridian opened a newly renovated 69,000-square-foot medical facility in Rohnert Park, Calif., in August 2015. The city of Rohnert Park is located approximately 50 miles north of San Francisco and was in need of more healthcare service providers, with only 1.29 doctors per 1,000 residences, far below the national average of 2.4 doctors per 1,000 residences. Meridian bought the two-story building in March 2014, which was built in 1973 and only 50 percent occupied at the time of the sale.
The two-story, 50,000-square-foot Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Cancer Center in Dallas offers personalized care in a facility dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer-related conditions. It was designed by HKS.
According to HKS project manager Anita Isaacson, the site takes advantage of views toward Jenkins Branch and the mature trees that border the branch and the existing pond. “We wanted the building to have a welcoming and natural vernacular inside and out.
The Women & Infants Specialty Health (WISH) Clinic opened on the New Parkland campus in Dallas on August 23, 2015. The new 135,000-square-foot healthcare facility serves Dallas County patients as part of the Parkland Health & Hospital System.
