PHOTO TOUR: UCHealth Steadman Hawkins Clinic Denver
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Like the Rocky Mountains in the nearby landscape, the arced roof of the new UCHealth Steadman Hawkins Clinic Denver soars into the Front Range sky.
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With the Rockies to the west and a golf course to the east, the aesthetic of the clinic communicates wellness and connection to landscape including via an outdoor sports performance training space.
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The lobby features materials such as Colorado buff stone and exposed steel to complement the wood grain panels.
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Entering the main lobby, entrants are surrounded by inspiring elements including images of aspirational sports and a stair that winds up to the second floor with carefully chosen views to emphasize the user experience.
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A two-story glass curved wall offers views of the outdoor playing fields. Interior glass walls continue the effect, creating a strong connection between the clinic and physical therapy space.
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The open physical therapy space immerses users in an energizing environment finished with natural wood and glass.
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At each nurses’ station, nurses can easily see doors to patient rooms, which enables them to track activities without leaving other tasks.
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Evidence-based design strategies combine with innovations to UCHealth’s prototypical room to optimize care for the most complex patient postulation. With patient-centered care as the primary goal of the project and where opportunity availed, treatment rooms welcome abundant daylight, connect patients to the landscape with expansive views, and enkindle trust between the provider and patient by featuring a computer cart (versus wall-mounted technology) enabling providers to chart while remaining face-to-face and conversing with patients.
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The multifunctional class space overlooks where strength training, aerobics, Pilates, and yoga classes are planned. The full gym in the physical therapy area includes an indoor/outdoor track with 60 meters inside and 20 to 30 meters outdoors. One of three roll-up doors enables athletes to run from inside to outside.
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The fourth-floor surgical center waiting room tops the building, providing calming vistas and views to the activity surrounding the facility on the performance field and neighboring golf course.
UCHealth (Denver) wanted to create a sports medicine center that embodied its brand of holistic care in the southeast part of Denver. Sited off a popular interstate, the 148,846-square-foot UCHealth Steadman Hawkins Clinic Denver is situated against the impressive backdrop of the Front Range of the Rockies and houses advanced MRI and radiology services, six operating rooms, human motion analytics, an orthopedic clinic, and physical therapy/occupational therapy.
The landscape plays a key role in the building design—for example, a staff lounge above the fourth-floor surgical center provides a panoramic view of the mountain landscape, giving providers and employees a place for respite and restoration.
Additionally, mitigating staff burnout was a central focus of the project. Promoting both collaboration and social support, the design team utilized space syntax to measure zone visibility and visual integration. These connector spaces optimize the multidisciplinary approach to push patients toward their peak performance, while design strategies that draw daylight deep into the facility help staff stay in tune with circadian rhythms.
Patient mobility was at the heart of medical planning, with the team mapping patient flows and organizing spaces to minimize movement for patients with mobility challenges. Studies that showed patients accessing radiology services, such as X-rays, before seeing the provider influenced the location of these services closer to exam rooms rather than in the back of the clinic where traditionally programmed.
Exam rooms, specifically, are a modification of UCHealth’s prototypical patient room to accommodate the coordinated care model for the center, bringing services to the patient instead of the patient moving between providers.
Project details:
Facility name: UCHealth Steadman Hawkins Clinic Denver
Location: Englewood, Colo.
Completion date: June 2019
Owner: UCHealth
Total building area: 148,846 sq. ft.
.Total construction cost: Confidential
Cost/sq. ft.: Confidential
Architect: BSA LifeStructures
Interior designer: BSA LifeStructures
General contractor: Haselden Construction
Engineer: Affiliated Engineers Inc.
Builder: N/A
