To meet the needs of a growing satellite community of Spokane, Wash., Providence Medical Group created a new facility to provide comprehensive healthcare. Designed by Mahlum and opened in April 2014, the medical park allows a patient to visit a primary care doctor, have diagnostic tests, pick up a prescription, and follow up with a specialist all in the same day under one roof. The new facility is part of the largest healthcare hub between Seattle and Minneapolis.
“We could make the hospital itself into a treatment for the patient.”
HuntonBrady Architects of Orlando revamped the look of Florida Hospital Tampa, giving the 45-year-old campus a rebranding that served as the beginning of an extensive renovation. Following the exterior’s modern facelift and patient room renovations, the design team worked closely with hospital administrators and staff to expand the Women’s Health Pavilion and add a new 91,000-square-foot emergency department and 87,000-square-foot intensive care unit tower.
The May 2015 issue of Healthcare Design offers a lot in terms of lessons learned, on how the past informs the future of healthcare systems and inspires physical buildings that will serve their patients, staff, and communities better than it ever could before. Whether it’s designing for resiliency against acts of God (Mercy Hospital Joplin) or harnessing the power of a challenging everyday climate (Kaiser Permanente's Antelope Valley Medical Offices), healthcare architecture has evolved in extraordinary ways to define what a healing environment can really be.
Los Alamitos Medical Center (LAMC) in Los Alamitos, Calif., is a 47-year-old general medical and surgical hospital that was in need of a new medical office building to maintain its on-site independent physician base, as well as additional parking.
Opened to patients in November 2014 and located on the Joseph Brant Hospital campus, this new primary healthcare teaching clinic for McMaster University’s Department of Family Medicine is an interior space fit-out within a larger project.
Perkins Eastman recently released a survey on senior living titled “An Industry Poised for Change,” including responses from around 200 not-for-profit senior living providers and industry consultants in the U.S. And what it says about the line between the healthcare sector and the senior living sector is pretty interesting.
Forest Park Medical Center San Antonio is a four-story, 150,000-square-foot hospital with 54 private inpatient rooms (including 16 family suites), 12 operating rooms, a cardiac catheterization lab, and six intensive care rooms. Designed by BOKA Powell (Dallas), the team was challenged to provide patient-focused care in a hospitality-quality atmosphere.
The Angie Fowler Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Institute, inside Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, has undergone a complete renovation of the 8th floor outpatient and 9th floor roof garden.
Like many of you, I was surprised to read the recent headlines claiming that a new Johns Hopkins study proves that design doesn’t really affect patient experience. Then I read the articles. Then I read the actual study.
Orlando Health’s new 245-bed, 10-story, 345,000-square-foot Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) North Tower opened to the public on January 12, 2015, after being completed by a team including general contractor Brasfield & Gorrie and architectural firm HKS Architects Inc.
The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) global headquarters and Innovation, Simulation, and Training Center, completed in January 2014 and LEED Silver-certified, provides a home for its 18,700 members in a build-to-suit structure. It was designed by Perkins+Will.
