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A Women Owned Small Business (WOSB) specializing in Healthcare to assist our partners
Board Certification by The American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA) & Interior Designers (CHID)
With +35 years of Healthcare experience, we address the complex interdependencies that exist in healthcare design with a national level of depth and knowledge. Our staff is comprised of imaginative planners, creative architects, and innovative interior designers with a passion for design in healthcare. With imagination, value, and service we are committed to helping our clients succeed with their strategic vision. Our knowledge of medical design and construction facilitates the feasibility of the master planning process for potential projects. The design for health entails more than simply providing healthcare architecture but rather promoting good design that can impact better health for all.
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Lake Taylor Pediatric Transitional Care Unit . Pediatric Care
4,095 SF . $1.75M . 4 patient pods with 6 beds per pod.
Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital (LTTCH) has been a part of the Norfolk, Virginia healthcare community for 133 years. It started as Norfolk’s Alms House and is now an award-winning hospital in the top five transitional care hospitals in the United States. A major expansion occurred in 1962 that included a separate wing with thirty beds. This Wing eventually became the LTTCH Unit for Pediatric Acute Care. The thirty beds were arranged in four bays of six, one bay of four, and two rooms of one. This layout remained until 1991 when the Wing was fully renovated to provide the required support spaces, reducing the bed count to twenty-four, and retaining the four bays of six. The Pediatric Care Unit remained as designed for the next thirty-two years.
The twenty-four-bed count was required to remain, no walls or med gas systems could be changed. The solution for modification fell to the design of existing surfaces and exterior windows. LTTCH leadership expressed their preference for a brighter place with a cheerful environment and visual site lines to each bay. The children under care remain in their beds for the extent of their stay, with bathing and schoolwork excepted. Various ceilings, floors, and wall schemes were presented to LTTCH leadership for feedback. Upon consent, a scheme that infers life under the water was developed. Due to the children’s regular laying position, the ceiling became the design driver. Visual interest was added through ring lights of various sizes and mounting styles to resemble bubbles as if below the water. These lights and all general lighting were set up as a circadian system to help maintain wellness for the children and care providers.
The existing conditions presented each bay as an element attached to a corridor. To create a more dynamic place, each bay includes an identifying color and geometry that reaches out into the corridor at the floor and ceiling. This contrasts with the linear corridor scheme and its focal point of a sea life wall graphic surrounded by casework, built-in seating, and light tubes that reinforce the direction in which light arrives below water. Casework is also provided at each bay to increase storage and characterize each bay as a sea creature.
With the interest and engagement of LTTCH, a new world was designed that entertains in a peaceful visual way.
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Showcase Project
Grady Health . Atlanta . GA . ICU Unit
30,000 SF . $25M . 52 ICU beds
Grady Health expanded the number of patient beds in the Atlanta area to meet the demand after a local 400-bed hospital shut down unexpectedly. The new project must be designed and completed in less than 12 months. This project adds 52 new ICU beds to an existing facility.
Grady Health had originally projected a series of phasing to complete the work to limit the disruptions to the 8th floor Neuro ICU. These disruptions were going to be caused by plumbing demolition and new work. The team researched an alternative vacuum pump plumbing system in lieu of the gravity-fed option. This eliminated all phases but one and all disruptions to the 8th floor Neuro ICU.
The project was awarded in early December of 2022. The design was completed by the end of January 2023. Construction completed by the end of September 2023. This expedited schedule was accomplished due to the following items: a design-build construction team, we were able to work through a portion of the design during construction, Grady has set material standards and has procurement contracts in place to expedite placing orders, and having material on-site at a fixed rate. Materials included were: flooring, ICU doors, sliding barn doors, wall protection, and exam lights.
Showcase Project
CHKD Children’s Pavilion . Behavioral Health Tower for In-patient and Out-patient Care Services
363,915 SF . $273M . 14 stories + 8 story attached parking garage . 60 In-patient pediatric beds, 12 per floor.
One floor includes 8 beds serving children with primary psychiatric conditions with a secondary medical condition (like diabetes or an eating disorder). Additional 4 beds are for children who have a primary psychiatric diagnosis along with a neurodevelopment condition like autism.
CHKD decided to rewrite the narrative on pediatric mental healthcare. Their goals are to reduce stigma of care, increase access, reduce or eliminate medication and restraint therapies and to include families in the therapy tracks to teach their patients how to recognize their own self perceived distress and what coping mechanisms work to help all themselves down in a moment of crisis. Only a few facilities in the U.S. offers these services, CHKD is addressing an extraordinary need.
Showcase Project
Hospital Bed 3 Story Vertical Expansion with New Heart Hospital Addition with New Chiller Plant+Connecting Bridge . 133,943 sf $85M
Includes a Surgical Addition . ICU Care Unit . Step Down Suite . Med Surgery Suite . Mother Baby Care Unit
Healthcare modernization is essential in the healthcare landscape of business. Patients expect a high level of care. A space that feels welcoming and high-tech is a statement of current trends that the provider is progressive with the latest technological advances in delivering the optimum healthcare. The 3-story addition was added on top of the existing hospital which involved multiple phases within the project. The patient rooms all have ceiling mounted booms allowing the floor area around the patient beds to be free of obstacles allowing the booms to move along the patient bed on both sides. This provides ease of care and safety to the patient and staff, bringing the tools directly to the care team where they are working saving precious time when caring for patients is most in need.
Showcase Project
Cancer Center Addition and Renovations . 26,000 sf . 2 story addition with PET CT . $17M
Renovations to adjacent existing center included exterior facade refurbishment and interior redesign
Receiving a cancer diagnosis is a life changing moment. The stress of finding a team that you trust to care for you from your diagnosis to remission is something the leadership wanted to eliminate. The client reimagined their care model and challenged themselves to provide one building and one team to support their community members on their journey. Reducing patient stress during the time on site was a paramount concern. Natural daylight and a healing garden anchors the building in a moment of respite. The style is simple and plays on the horizontal vernacular language of the existing hospital while also introducing a it’s own campus identity.
Showcase Project
Children’s Hospital of Richmond Dental Clinic . Virginia Commonwealth University Health System . 5,274 sf $1.8 Million
Full architectural and interior design services were provided for the buildout in the Children’s Pavilion
The design provides proper stimuli for pediatric dental patients while keeping the vibe of the clinic youthful and engaging. Linear and circular elements are incorporated as a means of way-finding and fluid workflow. The green circular soffit provides a focal point that is visible from the main corridor. Floor patterns mar a separation between operators and main circulation with contrasting-colored circles to highlight operators and hand-wash sink locations. The design was to keep the clinic as open as possible while maintaining privacy between the operators and treatment zones are book-ended with full-height support spaces divided by partial-height dental casework.
Showcase Project
Sport Medicine Orthopedic Center . 27,000 SF . $8.5M
Medical Office Building providing physical therapy, radiology, spinal care, and various orthopedic service lines.
The design flow is centered around the center rotunda housing x-ray stations. The building design brings in natural daylight throughout the interior through the use of higher volumes with clerestory glazing at the main entrance corridor and the rotunda. It was also enhanced by pulling the staff corridor with clinical work stations supporting each exam pod off the exterior wall. The exam pods are located around the centered rotunda. Administration services are located directly behind the check-in area and provide surgical scheduling centered with the exam pods outside of the X-ray rotunda. Physical therapy is off the main entrance corridor opposite of the waiting area. The main corridor has graphics staged on the wall depicting various sport activities which are also visible from the waiting area. The corridor is a multi-function space that physical therapist can utilize for patients strenghening their walking recovery. Bold colors, super graphics, varying spatial volumes, dynamic lighting patterns, and exposed structural and mechanical elements all break from the traditional healthcare model. All these elements create a cohesive tapestry that embodies the energy of the patient experience. The building was designed for an expansion for an MRI Center connecting at the rear end of the building. The building was designed not only for natural daylighting but also for night-time expression. The SMOC center continues to have exceptional patient experience ratings.
Showcase Project
Virginia Commonwealth University Health Emergency Department Center at New Kent, Virginia . 17,500 sf . $9M
A freestanding one-story building designed for capability of a future second floor expansion
With the nearest hospital more than 30 minutes away, the new facility is a state-of-the-art building providing healthcare to New Kent County. Offering the full spectrum of emergency care, it features 12 treatment rooms, a helipad for patient transport, and advanced imaging technology. The center is located on 7 acres on the corner of the Pocahontas Trail with dense woodlands. The exterior design draws from the surrounding woodlands including a combination of a wood framing trellis and terracotta colored metal panels. This project was the first of its kind for VCU Health with great community success.
Showcase Project
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters (CHKD) Hospital Medical Behavioral Health Suite . 7,239 SF . $2.2M
The project created a new service line completely dedicated to pediatric behavioral health.
This medical behavioral health unit is meant to serve patients that might have acute medical needs along with behavioral health modalities. CHKD’s new behavioral health tower is not equipped with medical gas or other general medical surgical amenities. This unit is meant to bridge the gap for patients who have multiple diagnosis being an extension of the new behavioral health tower. The care model for the unit is meant to encourage patients to recognize their own self-perceived distress and gives them room to manage their emotions without restraint or medication therapies. CHKD utilizes “theme” design for various floors of which this floor is “dream”. The design team chose to translate this concept into a series of iridescent images that capture you when you first arrive to the unit.
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