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ASSIGNMENT
To design and oversee construction of a new Heart and Vascular Center, a major expansion of the existing Surgery Department, two floors of Inpatient Units and a new entrance/identity for the existing Campus. The total project area, including the new addition and renovation is approximately 238,000 square-feet.
PROJECT VALUE
Confidential
SCOPE OF PROJECT
April 2004 to October 2008
The new Hospital Tower houses the Center for Heart and Vascular Medicine and a new entry for the existing hospital. This major expansion includes:
§ Eight Interventional Rooms including four Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, four Electrophysiology Labs and one Stereotactic MR Room
§ Noninvasive Cardiac Diagnostics spaces
§ HVC Pre/Post Procedural Bays
§ 3 tesla MRI
§ 12 Operating Rooms
§ Post Anesthesia Recovery Unit
§ Inpatient Satellite Pharmacy
§ Frozen Section Lab
§ Sterile Reprocessing Center
§ 64 Private Inpatient Units
Especially of note is the area’s first magnetic-guided navigation system for the treatment of heart conditions as well as the powerful 3 Tesla MRI.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Programming
Medical Planning
Interior Design
Conceptual Design
Schematic Design
Design Development
Construction Documents
Bidding and Negotiation
Construction Administration
CREATIVE SOLUTION
When this Chicago Based health system decided to build a world class heart and vascular facility, they knew the building would be centrally located on campus and needed to create a unique and distinct identity to serve the entire hospital. To do this, the design team worked to understand the client’s unique qualities based on their mission, location, surroundings, services provided and beliefs. Using symbols of the client’s unique qualities, the team created a unique identifier. A historic sword was combined with the shield that represents their current identity. Used together the symbols represent protection and fighting illness. This custom pattern appears in the frieze and column bases on the façade and is referenced again throughout the interiors. This unique identifier reinforces icons that are significant to the client and uses their history to remind patients, visitors and staff of their mission of treating the human spirit.
A unique feature of this project is the integrated interventional model for flexibility within the changing procedural environment. Pre and post procedural rooms for surgery and interventional suites are co-located on the first floor to allow flexibility for changing patient volumes. Both suites are designed with the same central sterile access and sterile flow to allow for the most invasive cases.
The new space focuses on the patient experience with the goal of decreasing patient stress levels and enhancing the recovery process. Patients are greeted in the new two-story main lobby with nature inspired finishes and a unique 18-foot water feature that provides a soothing space. The lobby translates into a corridor connecting the new facility with the existing campus and is oriented along the perimeter of the building with large windows. This system easily allows visitors to orient themselves to the outside while navigating the building, maintaining low stress levels.
Patient areas are designed around the client’s new patient-and-family-centered model of care. The new private Inpatient units provide comfortable accommodation for patients and their families in a relaxing environment. Studies have shown that the use of natural colors have an impact on the healing process. These findings have been incorporated throughout the building, especially in the new private patient rooms. Large windows offer natural light that creates a nurturing and relaxing space and tone-on-tone finishes create a peaceful environment for patients to begin their healing process.
Nursing support is also designed around the new model of care. Typical central nursing stations are augmented with smaller satellite stations located directly outside patient rooms. This will increase the amount of time nurses spend at patient bedsides and allow them to give more personalized patient-centered care.
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