An Ideas Based Practice

Healthcare

Overview

Consistently recognized as one of the top rated healthcare design practices in the world, Cannon Design has a long tradition of developing creative solutions that delight our clients and distinguish us as leaders and innovators in healthcare design. Our practice has been honored with some of the most prestigious awards in the industry, and we continue to work for some of the finest institutions around the world. Currently, the healthcare practice has active engagements with over 50% of the US News and World Report Honor Role hospitals. Our practice includes not only architects and engineers, but physicians, nurses, healthcare strategists, researchers, PhD’s, scientists, operational specialists, hospital administrators, LEAN and clinical experts—all offering our clients the most comprehensive perspectives available from any design firm in the world.

Healthcare as we know it is rapidly changing. The new realities of tomorrow’s healthcare paradigm represent unique challenges and opportunities for design firms. We see our role not only as designers of buildings, but as integral members of the healthcare system, called upon to assist our clients in developing innovative solutions that address the most perplexing challenges facing healthcare today. From community hospital to academic medical center—from ambulatory care to translational medicine—from sub-specialty centers of excellence to full-spectrum health delivery systems—every engagement reflects what is possible as a product of the synergy of expertise, discipline and imagination in the realization of our client’s vision.

Carlos L. Amato, AIA, ACHA, LEED

Carlos L. Amato, AIA, ACHA, LEED

A board-certified healthcare architect with over 22 years of experience in healthcare planning and design, Mr. Amato possesses expertise in master planning, functional and space programming, and medical planning and design. His hands-on approach throughout the planning and design process focuses on delivering healing and efficient designs with emphasis on the future of healthcare. Recent projects include the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, Mercy Medical Center, Merced Replacement Hospital, and more than 15 master plans for Catholic Healthcare West and other major health systems. Mr. Amato has presented at medical conferences, including RSNA in Chicago and CARS in Berlin, Germany. He serves as chairman of the American College of Healthcare Architects Certificate Holders Committee and as co-chairman of the AIA Los Angeles Committee for Healthcare Architecture.

camato@cannondesign.com

Andre Aoun, AIA

Andre Aoun, AIA

Aoun, Regional Health Science Practice Leader, is a recognized leader in the planning and design of world-class healthcare and science facilities. For more than 25 years, he has been intimately involved with planning, programming, and design, and has been instrumental in developing strong long-term relationships with some of the world’s top healthcare institutions. His award-winning work is executed through an integrated design process that weaves together innovative design and multidisciplinary collaboration to achieve quality built environments for healing and discovery.

Aoun speaks frequently at design conferences, and his work has garnered numerous awards and accolades from the American Institute of Architects, Boston Society of Architects, Building Design and Construction, and the New England Healthcare Assembly, among others.

aaoun@cannondesign.com

Tonia E.  Burnette, RA

Tonia E. Burnette, RA

With a career that spans three decades in the programming, planning and design of healthcare facilities, Burnette collaborates with clients, users and consultants to deliver both “Total Patient Satisfaction” and advance innovative healthcare delivery concepts. As Healthcare Practice Leader for the firm’s Mid-Atlantic practice and as a member of Cannon Design’s national healthcare practice, Burnette lends her expertise to assignments nationwide—bringing an innovative approach that supports the unique and ever-changing character of healthcare.

tburnette@cannondesign.com

Robin V. Cibrano, AIA

Robin V. Cibrano, AIA

With more than two decades of experience in the practice of architecture, Robin Cibrano has served in a variety of roles, from New York regional operations leader to project principal, project manager, and project architect. Cibrano’s portfolio of work includes healthcare, science and technology, education, hotel and convention centers, and corporate and commercial projects. Skillfully coordinating collaboration among design, technical, and management elements, Cibrano is recognized for his outstanding leadership and communication skills. He possesses the long-range vision required to anticipate potential challenges and to subsequently collaborate on solutions that are grounded in the best interest of the client, the project, and the design. He is expert at aligning and implementing the resources of the Cannon Design team to meet and exceed client needs and expectations.

As senior principal in Cannon Design’s New York City office, Cibrano is responsible for principal and office leadership as well as client development and leadership, with a focus on healthcare. Currently, he is project principal for a $400 million bed tower expansion at University of Colorado Hospital, a spinal cord injury building for the Veterans Administration, and a $200 million master plan implementation for South Nassau Communities Hospital.

rcibrano@cannondesign.com

Michael T. Felton, AIA

Michael T. Felton, AIA

Felton has managed the implementation of some of Cannon Design’s most notable projects, many of them challenging efforts with unique design challenges or demanding cost and schedule parameters. His ability to continually meet these challenges for significant clients such as BJC Healthcare, Clarian Health Partners and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, has resulted in long-term, multiple project relationships. Currently Felton is serving as project principal for the Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center, University Hospitals of Cleveland, St. Anthony’s Medical Center and the Department of Veterans Affairs, St. Louis, Addition/Renovation.

mfelton@cannondesign.com

Randy Guillot, AIA, LEED

Randy Guillot, AIA, LEED

As one of Cannon Design’s principal designers, Randy Guillot is changing the face of today’s healthcare architecture by creating buildings that are filled with daylight, connected to nature, and designed to promote health and well-being. His work helps redefine clinical, scientific, and corporate environments through careful consideration of client objectives and the transformative potential of design. Through his projects and the communities they affect, Guillot leverages the potential of design, in projects ranging from hospitals to research facilities and corporate headquarters. His award-winning work spans four continents and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Modern Healthcare, Architectural Record, and Contract.

rguillot@cannondesign.com

John P. Hall, AIA, RAIC, OAA

John P. Hall, AIA, RAIC, OAA

Hall has over 30 years of experience in the planning and design of buildings of various types—from large hospital programs to major laboratory projects to historic preservation and adaptive reuse. With an extensive background in medical and senior living facilities, he has directed the implementation of renovation and new construction to accommodate all types of hospital services. These include inpatient nursing for medical/surgical, psychiatric, OB/GYN, pediatrics, as well as emergency departments, oncology treatment, dialysis, clinical laboratories and ancillary services. His work in senior living facilities includes leading edge efforts in Household Concept, Eden Alternative and a demonstration project for the New York State Department of Health. He has authored “The Effects of Scale and Diversity on Human Behavior” for Kent State University Press, and articles for New York Real Estate Journal and Nursing Homes Long-Term Management. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Great Lakes Seaway Trail.

jhall@cannondesign.com

Manuel Hernandez, MD, MBA, FACEP

Manuel Hernandez, MD, MBA, FACEP

With more than 20 years of administrative and clinical experience in both the private and public healthcare sectors, Manny Hernandez leads Cannon Design’s Healthcare Performance Initiative—an essential component of the firm’s architectural team structure that provides consulting services to help optimize clinical operations, service excellence, strategic planning initiatives and improve financial outcomes for healthcare organizations.

A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Hernandez holds a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of California at Irvine and has been an invited presenter on the performance and operational efficiency of many aspects of healthcare. He has authored several publications and is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

mhernandez@cannondesign.com

Ronald B. McIntyre, MAIBC, MRAIC, AAA

Ronald B. McIntyre, MAIBC, MRAIC, AAA

Ronald McIntyre has more than 20 years’ experience as a project architect, focusing on healthcare and higher education projects, and a background in urban planning. A skilled communicator who believes in a collaborative approach to design, McIntyre orchestrates the development of design solutions that are creative, functional, and fiscally responsible. He has led the execution of public-private partnerships (P3)—an emerging alternative for healthcare infrastructure delivery—throughout the firm, including projects such as Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), Northern Health Authority’s Fort St. John Hospital Replacement in Victoria, and Vancouver Island Health Authority’s Royal Jubilee Hospital Patient Care Centre. McIntyre is a recipient of a Certificate of Achievement from the Alberta Association of Architects and an AIA Certificate of Merit for Excellence in the Study of Architecture.

rmcintyre@cannondesign.com

Christopher  McQuillan, LEED

Christopher McQuillan, LEED

As the regional health and science practice leader for Cannon Design’s Eastern Canadian region, McQuillan has provided hands-on leadership of the successful P3 pursuit of St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton. He has also led compliance consulting efforts for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, ON and Women’s College Hospital in Toronto.

Recognized as a leading Canadian expert in the design of biomedical research facilities, McQuillan’s recent work includes the design and programming for CAMH’s research laboratories and vivaria, and modernizations to University Health Network’s Max Bell research facility.

A frequent presenter at industry forums, including the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers and the Canadian Association of Lab Animal Sciences, McQuillan holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from the University of Toronto.

cmcquillan@cannondesign.com

Natalie R.  Petzoldt, AIA, LEED, EDAC

Natalie R. Petzoldt, AIA, LEED, EDAC

Supporting Cannon Design’s architectural practice in healthcare, as well as academic medical center programs, Petzoldt has participated in every phase of project development—from programming through construction. As leader of the St. Louis healthcare practice and principal healthcare planner, her focus is on master planning, academic medical centers and comprehensive oncology facilities.

Petzoldt is was one of the two first participants selected for Cannon Design’s Healthcare Fellowship Program—an initiative aimed to “fast-track” the careers of emerging healthcare professionals. In addition, she was honored in both Building Design & Construction’s and the St. Louis Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 programs; and named a Herman Miller Scholar by the American Institute of Architects/Academy of Architects for Health.

Petzoldt graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from Kansas State University, where she also received a School Medal from the American Institute of Architects.

npetzoldt@cannondesign.com

Michael Pukszta, AIA

Michael Pukszta, AIA

A key member of the firm’s healthcare planning and design practice, Pukszta’s extraordinary insight into the innumerable social, scientific, economic and human variables that form the healthcare environment—has resulted in improvement of the patient experience, clinical outcomes and staff productivity. A consummate teacher and learner, Pukstza is chairman of Cannon Design’s Steering Committee for the National Healthcare Practice and a leading author of the firm’s international healthcare practice policy.

mpukszta@cannondesign.com

Elizabeth S. Rack, AIA, ACHA, LEED

Elizabeth S. Rack, AIA, ACHA, LEED

The challenge of fusing art and technology attracted Rack to specializing in healthcare facilities. With more than 25 years of experience, her keen sense of design and thorough understanding of a building’s effect on the people it serves enables her to create an uplifting and healing environment—even for those healthcare centers and clinics requiring heavy medical equipment. Rack enjoys the united team effort needed to build an effective and aesthetically pleasing facility. She recognizes the important role clients play in the development of concepts and ideas and the need for buildings to fulfill their functions in the most effective manner possible.

erack@cannondesign.com

Timothy M. Rommel, AIA, MRAIC

Timothy M. Rommel, AIA, MRAIC

A healthcare architect for over 25 years, Rommel is a recognized expert in the planning and design of psychiatric care facilities, and has shared his understanding of the challenges associated with this building type in presentations at international conferences and academic institutions. Providing clients across North America with innovative solutions that meet current needs and anticipate emerging trends in healthcare delivery, his design approach encourages team collaboration, emphasizing participation from administration, medical staff and all other contributors to the design process

trommel@cannondesign.com

Deborah Sheehan, ACHE, LEED, EDAC

Deborah Sheehan, ACHE, LEED, EDAC

Cannon Design’s regional director for healthcare in Chicago, Deborah Sheehan is responsible for the design and construction of more than $1 billion in healthcare projects, ranging from replacement hospitals for USAID to community hospital expansions. Honored for her evidence-based design approach to planning in competitions sponsored by Modern Healthcare and the American Institute of Architects, Sheehan has been invited to speak at numerous industry forums, including ACHE, the American Society of Healthcare Engineering, and the Strategic Research Institute. Sheehan is past recipient of Building Design + Construction’s 40 Under 40 Award, and her work has been featured in Modern Healthcare, The Wall Street Journal, and Healthcare Design.

dsheehan@cannondesign.com

William G. Smeltz, AIA, MRAIC, OAA

William G. Smeltz, AIA, MRAIC, OAA

A member of Cannon Design’s healthcare team for over 25 years, Smeltz is dedicated to the development of innovative healthcare programs—from urban and academic medical centers to primary care centers and community-based hospitals. A recognized expert on the impact of managed care on medical facilities, he is particularly noted for his ability to incorporate functional and operational efficiencies into healthcare planning. Smeltz’s keen perspective in addressing complex project issues have resulted in the successful translation of strategic goals and objectives into pragmatic facility plans. As project director for the Qatar Foundation’s SIDRA Medical Center, Smeltz recently led a 120-person team for a $3.1 billion design-build project in Doha, Qatar.

wsmeltz@cannondesign.com

Kevin A. Spady, AIA, LEED

Kevin A. Spady, AIA, LEED

With a 30-year career as an accomplished architect, Spady’s valued expertise ranges from client relations and project management—to operations, management, and technical development and implementation. With a particular emphasis in healthcare, his wealth of knowledge in SB 1953 implementation for seismic retrofit of healthcare institutions in California has been invaluable to the firm. Spady’s proven track record in problem solving, strategic thinking and business planning has afforded him the opportunity to work on complex projects for healthcare and science and technology projects.

kspady@cannondesign.com

Jocelyn Stroupe, IIDA, AAHID, EDAC

Jocelyn Stroupe, IIDA, AAHID, EDAC

Jocelyn Stroupe, Cannon Design’s Director of Healthcare Interiors, has more than 25 years of experience uniting the disciplines of planning, programming, branding, and facility management with cohesive, comforting interior design. She excels at working with clients to achieve optimistic interiors that create a positive experience for patients, family, and staff. Stroupe currently leads the interior design for projects at Northwest Community Hospital, in Arlington Heights, IL, and OSF Saint Francis Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of Illinois, in Peoria. She is president of the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers and the Pebble Partner leader for the Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center, in Milwaukee. Stroupe is a frequent speaker for Healthcare Design and the Center for Health Design. Her projects have been recognized by the American Institute of Architects, Modern Healthcare, and Contract.

jstroupe@cannondesign.com

Mary Jane Van Horn, RA

Mary Jane Van Horn, RA

An accomplished healthcare planner for more than 20 years, Mary Jane Van Horn is a strategist who understands the needs of patients as well as the operational implications of the healthcare environment. Her expertise in funds disbursement, project phasing, healthcare codes, medical equipment technology, and building systems coordination continues to facilitate successful outcomes that both satisfy and routinely exceed project goals and aspirations. Projects include a major expansion and renovation program for Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan, a spinal cord injury center for the Department of Veterans Affairs in the Bronx, and a master plan for a 700,000 sf replacement hospital for Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. She holds a bachelor of science in design from the University of Florida and a master of architecture from Georgia Institute of Technology.

mvanhorn@cannondesign.com

Academic Medicine

Implementing capital strategies on academic medical center campuses requires a specialized understanding of clinical delivery futures, translational research, and an understanding of the changing pedagogy of medical education. As one of the leading firms in design for higher education, research and healthcare, Cannon Design draws upon a fully integrated understanding of these disciplines to create highly successful, world-class academic medical centers.

Our reputation speaks for itself. Cannon Design has been engaged by leading medical centers throughout North America, as well as prestigious institutions worldwide to solve their most challenging problems. Our high rate of repeat commissions from these complex clients is an indication of the value that we add, enhancing their missions.

Community Hospitals

Whether rural, suburban, or urban, community hospitals face a host of fiscal pressures as well as a range of obligations to their constituents. In planning and designing community hospitals, Cannon Design partners with our clients to explore opportunities for streamlining the patient-care process—achieving design solutions that manifest expressed goals and aspirations.

With a broad understanding of the variety of service lines and departments offered in the community hospital, we undertake state-of-the-art planning and design to enhance the patient, staff and physician experience and facilitate the delivery of family-focused care that addresses each community’s unique profile.

Ambulatory Care

As more and more medical treatments are offered in ambulatory, rather than inpatient, settings, Cannon Design has been developing thoughtful designs that create flexible, adaptable and efficient environments—creating the optimum experience for patients, families and staff. Our engagements range from the development of ambulatory care market capture strategies to the creation of cutting edge multidisciplinary ambulatory care centers, medical and professional office buildings, and surgery and diagnostic centers. Our experience also includes unique centers for translational medicine that transition smoothly between clinical and research settings.

Cannon Design’s research and benchmarking capabilities for ambulatory environments offer academic medical centers, healthcare systems, physician groups, and private or public entities the assurance that they are maximizing their opportunities in the most efficient and effective way. We implement best practices drawn from the latest knowledge around the globe, including advances in medical and information technology, universal room design, and multidisciplinary team-based delivery. Our environments are created around, not today’s, but the imagined future.

Women & Children's

Cannon Design is a leader in design of facilities for women and pediatrics with a focus on family-centered care. We have planned and designed facilities from free-standing replacement women’s and children’s hospitals to transplant centers for pediatric cancer patients. Our healthcare team includes pediatric clinicians who work closely with our medical planners and project designers to assure that all aspects of the environments’ operational needs are met.

With our significant depth of experience, we understand the medical issues and customer expectations unique to both women’s and pediatric health centers. Within the last five years, we have planned and designed 2,310 beds, representing over 5.4M square feet of new facilities dedicated to pediatric and women’s care. We draw upon this extensive experience and knowledge of best practices to create environments for healing that optimally satisfy our clients’ project goals and needs.

Behavioral Healthcare

According to the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Mental Health, one in four people will suffer from mental illness at some point in their lives. However, despite the widespread nature of mental illness and the proven effectiveness of modern treatments, the majority of behavioral health facilities are outdated and inadequate to support today’s care regimens.

At Cannon Design, we believe that sensitively designed facilities positively impact patient outcomes. Over the past decade, we have remained at the forefront of behavioral healthcare facility planning and design, responsible for more major behavioral healthcare facilities than any other firm. Our work has encompassed a spectrum of care modalities, ranging from community-based establishments to major tertiary-care behavioral complexes.

Cardiovascular

Designing facilities for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease – the leading cause of death in the United States – requires a rigorous understanding of present and future diagnostic and therapeutic modalities as well as a firm footing in the business and future of the field of cardiology.

Cannon Design brings a depth of understanding of this building type that is founded on years of practice and research. With a portfolio of cardiovascular facility design solutions ranging from private physician practices to destination ambulatory centers and freestanding heart hospitals, we understand the impact of environment on the delivery of care—creating buildings that are efficient, flexible, comfortable, and representative of our clients’ aspirations and spirit.

Cancer

Cannon Design’s experience in large-scale, complex cancer projects is unmatched by any North American firm. Our portfolio includes major work at a dozen highly rated NCI-designated centers as well as other prominent cancer facilities around the world.

Through decades of practice and research and thousands of interviews with cancer patients and healthcare providers, Cannon Design’s cancer design teams have created environments that optimize delivery of care for patients and their families throughout treatment and foster the spirit of partnership and advocacy that is essential to mental and physical healing.

Orthopedics

At the heart of successful orthopedics service design is attention to detail. Infection control, accessibility, efficiency, and knowledge of multiple diagnostic and therapeutic modalities are just a few of the dimensions designers must address in creating a successful orthopedics facility.

Whether implementing large projects for the country’s top-ranked orthopedic hospital or developing freestanding orthopedic hospitals and ambulatory facilities, Cannon Design creates environments that improve delivery of care, reassure and support patients and their families, and facilitate the complex treatment and rehabilitation regimens associated with this specialty.

Neuroscience

Neuroscience is one of the most complex and fastest growing specialties in medicine. Cannon Design’s portfolio of projects for this specialty is impressive. Our experience ranges from purely ambulatory environments and inpatient facilities to freestanding translational centers that blend patient care and research, encouraging clinicians and researchers to collaborate in multidisciplinary translational medicine.

Knowing that this patient type is typically elderly, frail and often under the care of multiple providers, special attention needs to be made to the care environment, to ensure that wayfinding systems and interior spaces accommodate these unique physical needs. Provider spaces also need to be designed to encourage collaboration and a team environment to care for these complex patients as well.

Emergency

From large urban trauma centers to community hospital emergency departments, freestanding emergency care facilities, and mass casualty treatment centers, Cannon Design implements solutions that address the unique challenges of emergency medicine, emphasizing efficient, effective, and safe delivery of care.

Through careful analysis of workload and operations, functional relationships, flow patterns, and the integration of technology, we devise emergency care environments that accommodate current and projected healthcare demand, attract and retain quality staff, and alleviate the anxiety of patients and visitors seeking emergency care.

Research

As the boundaries between research and clinical activities become more blurred, so do the environments that support these functions. Implementing capital strategies for medical research requires a specialized understanding of funding sources, clinical futures, translational opportunities, and even the changing pedagogy of medical education itself. As one of the leading firms in design for higher education, research and healthcare, Cannon Design draws upon a fully integrated understanding of all areas to create highly successful, world-class environments for medical research. The facilities we create range from freestanding basic science buildings, where the emphasis is on discovery—to computational dry research environments, with a focus on measurement—to translational and incubator facilities with a focus on application. Whatever the concentration, our environments are designed to encourage exploration and collaboration with the ultimate goal of advancing medicine.

Imaging

Imaging has surpassed its traditional function as a simple diagnostic tool. It has become a highly complex diagnostic and therapeutic environment. With ever shorter technological life cycles and ever more demanding requirements governing equipment loading, clearances, isolation, and infrastructure, imaging services can also be a prime driver of obsolescence in healthcare facilities if not carefully planned. Future generations of new equipment will continue to widen applications of these technologies. With a wealth of experience in imaging services design for academic environments, community hospitals, research, and ambulatory environments, Cannon Design remains at the forefront of this rapidly evolving field of medicine.

Long-Term Care

The increasing age of the U.S. population has resulted in a significant increase in the acuity of long-term care patients. Patients with Alzheimer’s, dementia, and complex multiple-diagnosis conditions, require a physical infrastructure that is both clinically supportive and homelike.

As a leader in the development of design for complex and long-term care, Cannon Design understands that these facilities play a crucial role in the full continuum of healthcare delivery. Going beyond mere provision of custodial care, these environments promote human bonding and enrichment opportunities, nurturing attention, emotional and physical well-being. They are among the most complex environments to design as they deal with one of the most complex issues – human dignity and life.

Master Planning

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Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Chicago Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture and Design and
The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies
Green Good Award for Architecture
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Society of American Registered Architects
National Design Award
Mercy Hospital of Buffalo
American Society of Interior Designers - NY Upstate/Canada East Chapter
First Place Award

Professional Recognition

Acadia Hospital
AIA New England Healthcare Facilities Design
Honor Award for Design Excellence
“The integration of the new free-standing psychiatric hospital and the adaptive reuse of an obsolete osteopathic hospital, a challenge heightened by the "Y" shape of the original building, is remarkably well-done...The designer chose an elegant farmhouse metaphor that is well-conceived and beautifully executed within what seems to have been a very modest budget.”
Boston Medical Center
AIA New England Healthcare Facilities Design
Honor Award for Design Excellence
“This is an eight-story inpatient facility that serves as the new, main entrance to the Hospital...the project includes an expanded emergency and trauma center, its own radiology department, new surgical suites, a labor and delivery center, labs, over 300 beds, and other facilities...this project is well-executed at all levels within real financial and other constraints...the design is a powerful form that succeeds through understatement; the architect drew nicely from the rich architecture of the neighborhood...the public spaces are dynamic, the detailing is elegant, and there is a sense that this contextually successful project also is functionally efficient...this is an excellent example of an inpatient care facility; it is by far the best large-scale project we had the opportunity to examine in large part because of the extraordinary design consistency from the grand scale to the small detail.”
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Healthcare Facilities Symposium
Distinction Awards - User-Centered Symposium Distinction Award
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
American Society for Healthcare Engineering
Vista Award
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
American Institute of Architects
National Healthcare Award
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
AIA Academy of Architecture for Health
Design Award
BJC/Washington University Medical Center
Modern Healthcare/AIA Academy of Architecture for Health
Honorable Mention
“A successful design for a healthcare facility strives to find a balance in all things great and small. It’s a patient-friendly ambulatory setting, great accessibility with superb functional relationships, and a logical, bold plan that fosters orientation both the patients and staff.”
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Society of American Registered Architects
National Design Award
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Chicago Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture and Design and
The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies
Green Good Award for Architecture
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
FacilityCare Magazine/Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo
User-Centered Distinction Award
Children's Medical Center of Israel
American Society of Interior Designers
Best of Medical Facilities, New York Upstate/Canada East Chapter
Children's Medical Center of Israel
AIA Western New York
Honorable Mention for Design Excellence
Indiana University Health
International Interior Design Association - New York Chapter
Honorable Mention
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
AIA St. Louis
Merit Award
“The alternating levels of balconies and curtain walls create different planes that provide relief from the facade. These well-resolved interactions between volumes allow for the integration of a natural, organic feel to the forms that match the project’s intent to bring gardens up throughout the building.”
Kaleida Health System
AIA Western New York
Merit Award
Union Memorial Hospital
Modern Healthcare/AIA Academy of Architecture for Health
Honorable Mention for Design Excellence
“...the project demonstrates innovative design that is conducive to group learning activities in an attractive setting. The essential awareness and celebration of therapy is the centerpiece of this project. The mission and purpose of the hand center is made highly visible through a simple concept which groups the therapy in a two-story gallery.”
Union Memorial Hospital
AIA Washington, DC
Excellence in Design
“This project discards the cold, scary and impersonal image of most medical facilities by placing the therapeutic stations in a serene and beautiful open setting. It is clear that this facility was designed from the perspective of the patient, rather than the equipment planner.”
St. Vincent's Medical Center
American Concrete Institute
Citation for Design Excellence
St. Vincent's Medical Center
AIA Central States Region
Honor Award for Excellence in Design
St. Vincent's Medical Center
AIA State of Florida
Citation for Design Excellence
Mercy Hospital of Buffalo
AIA Western New York
Merit Award
Mercy Hospital of Buffalo
American Society of Interior Designers - NY Upstate/Canada East Chapter
First Place Award
St. Anthony's Medical Center
AIA St. Louis
Merit Award Unbuilt, 2007
Baptist Medical Center
AIA Central States Region
Citation of Excellence in Architecture
“The bold iconic device of the helipad accentuates the centeredness and the entry as an active 'hub'. The 'flowing' form of the addition emphasizes the bend in the river and actually creates pleasant-non-institutional spaces on the inside. The building’s circulation system has a poetic quality that avoids the ‘rabbit warren’ planning that often is found in hospitals.”
Baptist Medical Center
AIA St. Louis
Honor Award
“A sensitive response to the complexities of a river site produces a graceful building form that welcomes patients with a more humane environment and transforms the institutional character of the existing hospital complex. ”
“Inventive use of site and program to deliver a compelling work of architecture. The project went beyond program to take advantage of the unique qualities of the site. The heliport illustrates how a program point can go beyond a functional object and become an icon for the institution.”
Baptist Medical Center
Modern Healthcare/AIA Academy of Architecture for Health
Citation for Design Excellence
“It was very clear that the patient rooms are spacious, and the abundant natural light creates a more natural healing atmosphere. That’s the trend-family-centered healing-totally developed around the recovery of the patient. Located on a very dense, urban site, the design approach is very bold and innovative.”
Baptist Medical Center
AIA Jacksonville
Award of Commendation
“An efficient and functionally innovative solution to a difficult problem. The organization of three modes of arrival vertically along a strong entry axis knits together the existing hospital and adjacent parking garage, creating an occupied edge along the riverfront. These stacked entries clarify wayfinding, pulling together three entry points into one conceptual idea.”
Bassett Healthcare
AIA Western New York
“A remarkable transformation – excellent use of natural lighting; strong integration of exterior and interior.”
Essex County Hospital Center, New Jersey
AIA Western New York
Citation of Excellence
“In keeping with the very clearly described rationale, there are nicely realized intentions here in creating a transitional place for those who are trying to re-enter the “real world.” The communal spaces and circulation relate the two L-shaped wards to the courtyard, which is central to all other elements. The design details were strong in both conception and execution.”
Kaleida Health System
AIA Western New York
First Place Award
“A symphony of light; clean elegant design that creates a strong image; clean and precise use of materials.”
Bassett Healthcare
Illuminating Engineering Society of North America
Great Lakes Region - Award of Merit
Bassett Healthcare
AIA Western New York
Honorable Mention
St. Anthony's Medical Center
AIA St. Louis
Merit Award in Architecture
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
AIA State of North Carolina
Honor Award
“The entry piece is richly composed. Modules along the main circulation spine are logically connected, providing good security and visibility. The plan is well organized, providing good flow for users of the building ”
Ontario Ministry of Health
Modern Healthcare/AIA Academy of Architecture for Health
Citation for Design Excellence
“This is a state-of-the-art mental health program where patient dignity is important in psychiatric treatment. The design . . . does an absolutely fantastic job of taking a half-million square feet into a residential scale. ”
Ontario Ministry of Health
AIA New England Healthcare Facilities Design
Honorable Mention, Boston Society of Architects
Ontario Ministry of Health
AIA New England Region
AIA Design Merit Award
Mount St. Mary's Hospital
AIA Western New York
Design Excellence Award
“A conscientious design for a program type much in need of conscientious designers. The overall plan is clearly organized and offers a desirable variety of well-lit collective and semi-private spaces. The dining areas are particularly successful. Material palette mitigates the institutional character typical of the building type. ”
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston Society of Architects/Northeast Healthcare Assembly
Honorable Mention
“This is without a doubt the best healing environment. Beginning with the brilliant plan, the architect has created a series of unique, flexible, social spaces. This is a unique healthcare facility designed atop a major urban teaching hospital in which the beautiful space, exceptional accommodation of privacy, and support of patients' ongoing family and business interaction reflects a healing environment rather than a traditional hospital unit ... it works.”
University of Alabama, Birmingham
AIA St. Louis
Merit Award in Architecture
University of Alabama, Birmingham
AIA Birmingham
Honor Award
University of Alabama, Birmingham
AIA Birmingham
Institutional Honor Award
Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center
Modern Healthcare/AIA Academy of Architecture for Health
Honorable Mention
“The merging of the exterior and interior landscapes, as well as the integration of indigenous materials and the use of location-appropriate decorations are quite distinctive. In addition, the gardens are very inventive … by incorporating different types of plantings and the use of gravel mulch, they used a variety of elements that were appropriate to the environment.”
Baltimore Washington Medical Center
AIA Baltimore Chapter
AIA Honorable Mention
“Bringingso much light into the building is an attempt to make this building more than a wrapper around technology. For a place where most patients don’t want to go, especially in the dark, this is an inviting building. ”
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics
Modern Healthcare/AIA Design Award
Citation of Excellence Award
“The use of clerestory windows, allow the light to hit the wooden ceiling and infuses the rooms with daylight. The designers took simple, non-extravagant materials and beautifully combined them to create a warm atmosphere.”
UMass Memorial Medical Center
AIA Central Massachusetts
Award for Design
“This thoughtful design recognizes that medical centers need to provide state-of-the-art care in an environment that is also nurturing and human-centered. The location of public spaces and corridors along the perimeter walls and abundant use of natural light leads to intuitive wayfinding—maintaining a sense of connection to the outside that is so often missing in large medical complexes. The public spaces are comfortable and the medical areas are both human-scale and models of medical efficiency.”
Karmanos Cancer Institute
Modern Healthcare/AIA Academy of Architecture for Health
Citation for Design Excellence
“The project reflects a caring and compassionate environment that blends well into the naturally wooded site. It gives patients and their families a sense of warmth and personal peace not possible in most sterile environments.”

Government Recognition

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Children's Medical Center of Israel
City of Petah Tikva
Special Award for Excellence in Planning and Design
Arizona State Hospital
Phoenix Community Development Association
Crecordia Award for public Architecture
“A distinctive complex that weaves a story of healing, well-being, and dignity, the Arizona State Hospital is a cutting edge facility that represents a new paradigm in mental health facilities. ”

Associations & Media Awards

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Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Modern Healthcare/AIA Design Award
Honorable Mention
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Contract Magazine - Healthcare Environment Awards
Honorable Mention
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Healthcare Design Magazine Architectural Showcase
Award of Merit
BJC/Washington University Medical Center
Healthcare Design
Citation of Merit
“The intent of the Center for Advanced Medicine is to consider the patient's needs first. Instead of moving the ambulatory patient to various centralized functions, services are decentralized to achieve the patient first—an approach that addresses the goals of operational efficiency and convenience.”
BJC/Washington University Medical Center
Center for Healthcare Design
Honorable Mention
BJC/Washington University Medical Center
American Society for Healthcare Engineering
Vista Honor Award
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Healthcare Design
Citation of Merit
“A very innovative and patient-centered design—it is obvious that the design team spent a good bit of time on flow redesign and adjacencies. The planning and resulting mass and form of the building are striking, bold and impressive. Forms are elegant and interesting...each elevation offers something different to keep one's interest, yet it all works as a whole. This large-scale project fits effortlessly within the existing campus. ”
Arizona State Hospital
Design-Build Institute
Merit Award for Public Sector Buildings
Hospital for Special Surgery
New York Construction News
Best of 2007
Essex County Hospital Center, New Jersey
Behavioral Healthcare Design
Honorable Mention
Blue Ridge HealthCare System
Southeast Construction
Award of Merit
Vancouver Island Health Authority
UK Public Private Finance Awards
Best International Project Awards
Brigham and Women's Hospital
BioConferences International
Innovators Award for Hospital Space Planning
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Preferred Care Consortium
Design Innovation in Patient Care
Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center
Valley Forward
Environmental Excellence Merit Award
OSF/St. Francis Center for Health
Midwest Construction
Award of Merit
Children's Hospital of Boston
Banker & Tradesman
Healing Designs: Critical Pediatric Unit Combines Best of Technology and Creative Comforts
“Through design innovations such as the ceiling light shows, the healing environment of the HSCT Unit gently and playfully gives the children back some of the feelings of control and self-expression that they gave up along the way. In so doing, like all truly healing environments, it coaxes them back to the land of well-being.”
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics
Buildings Magazine
Project Innovations Award
“Fitting seamlessly into the landscape, the space is inspired by elements found in rural architecture (metal roofs, post and beam construction, brick, and split-faced concrete block). With pastoral surroundings demanding scenic views from the inside out, ample use of glass allows visual access to the woodlands for patients, families, and staff.”
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics
Contract
Interior Awards - Healthcare
University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center
Chicago Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture and Design
American Architecture Award
Pima County Hospital Behavioral Health Pavilion
Behavioral Healthcare Magazine – Design Showcase
Citation of Merit
““A one-stop shop for behavioral healthcare—incorporating elements of acute treatment, crisis response, and inpatient care—the design nicely integrates interior and exterior presentation, with good separation of vehicular and internal traffic flow. The on-site courtroom works extremely well, limiting both the patient’s apprehension of being transported to and from judicial proceedings, and the overall risk factor placed upon the patients and the staff.

The contemporary style of the facility’s beautifully designed exterior is very appropriate for Arizona, as is its use of sustainable design elements, including the optimization of land with various levels, drought-resistant landscaping, and sun screens. The interior and exterior ‘fold into each other’ seamlessly, with the subtle but thorough incorporation of safety and security features throughout.”

Industry & Trade

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Boston Medical Center
International Masonry Institute
New England Region - Golden Trowel Award
BJC/Washington University Medical Center
St. Louis Construction News and Real Estate
AGC of St. Louis - Keystone Award
Essex County Hospital Center, New Jersey
American Concrete Institute
Merit Award
Baltimore Washington Medical Center
Masonry Institute of Maryland
Design Award & Craftsmanship
National Institutes of Health
Washington Building Congress
Craftsmanship Award
Karmanos Cancer Institute
Center for Healthcare Design/Contract Magazine
Healthcare Environment Award - Honorable Mention
Karmanos Cancer Institute
Center for Healthcare Design
Citation of Merit

Publications

Recent Publications

Health Facilities Management
Health Facilities Management
Healthcare Design
Visual Reference Publications, Inc.
Behavioral Healthcare

Index

Award
Banker & Tradesman
Behavioral Healthcare
Behavioral Healthcare
Building Design & Construction
Buildings
Business Week
Contract
Facilities Planning News
Health Care Architecture
Health Care Architecture
Health Facilities Management
Health Facilities Management
Health Facilities Management
Healthcare Building Ideas
Healthcare Building Ideas
Healthcare Construction & Operations
Healthcare Construction & Operations
Healthcare Construction & Operations
Healthcare Design
Healthcare Design
Healthcare Design
Healthcare Design
Healthcare Design
Healthcare Design
Healthcare Design
Healthcare Design
Healthcare Design
Healthcare Design
Healthcare Design
Healthcare Facilities News
Healthcare Facilities News
Inside ASHE
Medical Construction & Design
Medical Construction & Design
Modern Healthcare
Modern Healthcare
Modern Healthcare
Modern Healthcare
Modern Healthcare
New Orleans Magazine
New York Construction Review
New York Times
Nursing Homes
Nursing Homes
Progressive Architecture
Real Estate & Construction Review
Real Estate & Construction Review
St. Louis Design Magazine
Visual Reference Publications, Inc.
Visual Reference Publications, Inc.
Visual Reference Publications, Inc.
Visual Reference Publications, Inc.

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