Healthcare

Denver – The S/L/A/M Collaborative (SLAM), formerly CBRE | Heery Design Group, in partnership with Mt. San Rafael Hospital in Trinidad, Colo., recently completed renovations to the new $25 million, 8,900sf, two-story emergency room department (ED) addition, as part of an overall 31,000sf renovation project designed to improve the delivery of care for the community and modernize the hospital’s image and brand.

SLAM’s design team completed both exterior and interior facility upgrades, following the hospital’s last modernization initiative in 1972. The building’s exterior combines metal panel cladding, stucco, and curtain wall, with accents of the region’s indigenous Colorado sandstone. On approach to the front entry is a garden that includes a meandering stone path with strategically placed and locally sourced boulders and a few native trees, shrubs, grasses, and other plantings.

The interior architecture of the new emergency department was designed with safety in mind for patients, visitors, and staff. The emergency room department and imaging services are located on the first floor, where site-lines were maximized for visual control from all corners of the department. Throughout the hospital corridors, many spaces were designed to complement and serve as a backdrop for artwork by local artists.

The second floor is home to an expanded 14-bed patient care unit, along with a new central plant. An increase in capacity of the patient rooms went from 205sf to 290sf, providing enhanced views of the outdoors and to better accommodate visits from family members.

Spaces throughout the department are closely linked to ensure ease of patient transport between the ER and radiology, for example, which is now condensed into one area. Also new are an Inova Emergency Medical Associates triage room and consultation rooms for meetings between patients’ families and physicians.

A new patient room in the patient care unit of the emergency room department at Mt. San Rafael Hospital / Photo by Bob Soman Photography

Former Quincy Medical Center demolition Quincy, MA – New England construction management firm, Dellbrook|JKS, has begun demolition work on the former Quincy Medical Center at 114 Whitwell Street, alongside owner FoxRock Properties and architect Arrowstreet.

The demolition will be completed in three phases and remove roughly 345,000sf of vacant and functionally obsolete buildings. Phase one will include the eastern portion of the property; phase two will be the western side, which includes the former emergency department; and phase three will be the tall middle portion.

Demolition work is expected to be completed by the end of July. Shortly thereafter, ground-up construction of four new buildings, which will include a total of 465 multi-family residential units, will begin. The 19,500sf historic Administration Building will be preserved and transformed into an adaptive reuse structure with amenity spaces and a new addition. “We’re excited to execute a demolition of this scale in our own backyard while also preserving a major architectural landmark of Quincy in the Administration Building,” said Dellbrook|JKS project manager, Tim Dann. “This site has a lot of history, so incorporating elements of the former structure with the new construction is going to create a wonderful final product.”