Mahlum Architects
71 Columbia, Suite 400
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 441-4151
www.mahlum.com
Providence Newberg Medical Center Providence Health System, Newberg, Oregon
Despite budget constraints and escalating steel prices, Providence Health System was committed to creating a state-of-the-art, sustainable healthcare facility for the growing Newberg community. Although ‘green’ design was still a relatively new practice in the healthcare market, the design team set out to prove a medical center could be as kind to the environment as it is to its patients. The first LEED® Gold hospital in the nation, Providence Newberg Medical Center, a 181,000-square-foot facility, is designed as three distinct elements: a 2-story, 40-bed medical facility offering emergency care, surgery, inpatient and outpatient services; a 45,000-square-foot medical office building and an administration/conference center. Patients are welcomed into a two-story, glass-walled entry and galleria filled with natural light that connects diverse outpatient services along the building’s spine while surgery, inpatient units and remaining clinical functions are in more private portions of the building. Locally extracted and produced materials and high efficiency building systems, including 100% outdoor air throughout the entire hospital, are just a few ways the design seamlessly serves both the community and the environment. The heart of the complex, an east-facing healing garden, links the hospital and medical office building. Positioned to enjoy direct morning sunlight and views of Parrett Mountain the space embodies the design principle of embracing nature. A distinguished beacon to the city beyond, the medical center establishes a new “gateway” on the eastern edge of Newberg.
Emergency Department Expansion, Patient Facility Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, Kirkland, Washington
Developed as complementary additions to the existing Evergreen Hospital Medical Center campus, the Emergency Department expansion and new Patient Facility provides the community with expanded access to the highest quality of care. At the heart of the Emergency Department’s cutting edge expansion is an innovative nurse station design. Triangle-shaped, it serves to centralize staff and increase visibility into a greater number of surrounding patient rooms. Divided into four staff groups, the nurse station is configured to support a modified team structure; rather than organize the teams according to care specialization, each group serves all levels of patient care. Even the exterior canopies, parking lot and lobby are designed to play a supporting role. Set up for triage, they enable dramatic expansion of Emergency Department capacity in case of a major community emergency. The Patient Facility was developed in parallel with the Emergency Department expansion and complements that project. The two facilities are designed to be structurally and mechanically isolated from the rest of the hospital, should the older structures suffer in a disaster. The Patient Facility provides as many as 192 patient care beds, with two 16-bed nursing units on each of six floors. These new patient care rooms will accommodate additional services and programs; all rooms are designed to a “universal room” standard that is flexible to serve standard medical surgical or intensive-care uses, including new and emerging technologies.