University of Kansas Hospital Authority

Accommodating 400,000 clinic visits a year, a new $73 million medical office building at University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) provides a complete range of ancillary testing and care to ambulatory adult and pediatric patients in a convenient, comfortable environment. The six-story, 185,000 sf building houses 12 outpatient clinics and provides centralized office space for more than 200 ambulatory-care physicians and 200 residents previously dispersed throughout the hospital’s campus. A standard physician practice module and a space allocation model based on patient visit volumes were developed to facilitate future adjustments in space assignments and enable the facility to respond to changes in care delivery.

Clad in an aluminum panelized system with punched window openings and aluminum curtainwall, the building shelters a patient dropoff area formed via a notching-out of the first two floors at the southeast corner, enabling cars to drive underneath. Clear signage and connecting bridgeways to the main hospital, combined with a new parking structure, streamline processes for patients as they park, check in, and receive high-quality care. The University of Kansas Hospital Authority will pursue LEED certification for the project.