Healthcare Facilities
The 22,000-sf, 12-bedroom Almost Home Kids facility in Peoria, Ill., provides transitional care for children with complicated health conditions. Images: Ballogg Photography
Its newest location is positioned as a prototype for national growth.
Avera eCARE, the telehealth program of Avera Health, operates a 34,000-sf virtual hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D., as well as satellites in three other states. The program handles up to 18,000 patient ”visits” in a typical month. Image: Avera Health
Guidelines emphasize maintaining human interaction.
Courtesy Salah Foundation Children's Hospital
Skanska USA built the project.
MBH ARCHITECTURE is the architect for the project.
The 95,000-sf VA San Jose Community-Based Outpatient Clinic, which opens officially this fall, has a modular floor plan that separates patient and staff corridors to create a more tranquil environment. Photo: Hoefer Wysocki.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is making efforts to improve its construction management and a...
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Under its new contract with the U.S. Navy Facilities Engineering Command, a WSP-HKS joint venture has been assigned seven projects. Courtesy HKS.
The contract is not exclusive to the two firms, but it lets NAVFAC assign certain projects to the...
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To date, seven NICoE Spirit satellite centers have been built on the grounds of Fort Belvoir in V...
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A rendering of the $32 million, 94,000-sf medical office building for Main Line Health in partnership with Axia Women’s Health, which broke ground in June in King of Prussia, Pa. NELSON is the architect, Bohler Engineering the CE, Pisarek Enigneering the MEP, O’Donnell & Naccarato the SE, Perkins Eastman the design consultant, and Glackin Thomas Panzak the landscape architect. Image: courtesy of IMC Construction, the project’s CM.
A new Transwestern report suggests a “rethinking” of healthcare delivery approaches that lean hea...
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Maggie’s Centre Barts, London, designed by Steven Holl Architects. Photo: Iwan Baan
The Steven Holl-designed Maggie’s Centre Barts cancer treatment facility in London highlights the...
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The $171 million, 475,000-sf John S. Oishei Children's Hospital of Women's and Children's Hospital of Buffalo. The project team: Shepley Bulfinch (architect), Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SE), DiDonato (CE), CannonDesign (MEP), CT & Associates (logistics/planning), HB & Associates (medical equipment planner), and Turner Construction (GC). Photo: Laura Peters/CannonDesign
Hospitals set their sights on improving patient convenience and operational efficiency.
At the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Child, Teen & Family Center and Department of Psychiatry Building, patient waiting rooms are located adjacent to the central atrium in a highly visible corridor. Rendering: ZGF
Circadian lighting, calming materials, and transparency are helping to normalize the patient expe...
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Courtesy HGA
The facility’s master plan creates a ‘hospital in a park.’
Courtesy Stanford Health Care
The facility recently celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Rendering courtesy of Ryan Companies
Construction is anticipated to begin on the initial phase in mid-2019.
The new 603,000-sf outpatient facility on the Richmond campus of Virginia Commonwealth University will consolidate many of VCU Health's services. Image: VCU
New buildings for outpatient care, engineering, and rehabilitation of serious injuries and debili...
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Dax Alzheimer's Village. Courtesy NORD Architects.
The new facility will provide research on a new way of treating Alzheimer’s patients.
Courtesy Leo A Daly
Leo A Daly designed the facility.
The seven-story cancer center is clad in glass curtain wall to maximize daylighting and views of the campus. In the main lobby, greeters welcome patients upon arrival. A palette of wood, glass, and daylight provides clear wayfinding throughout the ground level. Robert Benson Photography.
Gold Award: Cleveland Clinic’s new cancer center is a transparent, collaborative hub for improved...
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Courtesy HKS
HKS is designing the project and Skanska USA will build it.
CannonDesign designed the project.
Boston University's Goldman School of Dental Medicine will increase its clinical space by 60% through a renovation and addition that are being conducted while the school stays open and continues to offer its services to students and the community. Image: SmithGroupjjr
A major renovation and addition are scheduled to minimize operational disruption.
Courtesy JE Dunn Construction
The project is targeting LEED Silver certification.
Shepley Bulfinch designed the project.
Rendering courtesy of The Crump Firm
The Crump Firm is designing the project.
The Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., matches each floor of its research tower dedicated to a specific disease with a corresponding and connected floor in the adjacent clinical tower that includes clinical-trial areas and “knowledge transfer” zones where clinical and research faculty offices reside. Photo courtesy HDR © 2017 Corey Gaffer.
Healthcare systems ask their AEC partners for design flexibility that is adjustable to advances i...
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The new 6,115-sf Radiation Oncology department in Berkeley Heights, N.J., expands Summit Medical Group’s comprehensive treatment program, and solidifies its affiliation with Houston-based MD Anderson Cancer Center, whose growth plans call for opening regional cancer centers domestically and internationally.
This treatment center is half new construction, half renovation of a building that had been used...
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Efficient supply chains enable companies to be more competitive in the marketplace.
“The ballooning costs of healthcare act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy,” said Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO. Photo: flickr creative commons
The three mega companies—Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase—will pursue the formation...
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The project is a collaboration between Carilion Clinic and Virginia Tech.
