Inpatient Facility
Having exclusively practiced healthcare architecture for over 35 years, PDS has witnessed and participated in a transformative and pivotal period in the delivery of healthcare services. Our experience as healthcare architects is deeply rooted in the core mission of a myriad of healthcare providers, settings, and scales. Successfully managing a wide range of project typologies, complexities and budgetary constraints for our clients as they navigate through this period of healthcare delivery and sharing our knowledge and experience base across these delivery platforms has become an essential role in our business model. Our client’s success is our success we are committed to both and the power of a healing environment capable improving the disposition of patients lives.
PDS is qualified to support our clients in its pursuit to continually improve the quality of care being provided, enhance its image locally and nationally, and provide a state-of-the-art facility in which to treat patients, heal, and work. PDS specializes in creating environments for healing and their expertise in the patient experience will be incorporated into design, interior design and furnishing strategies for this project. PDS is and has been engaged in numerous patient care facilities including, Inpatient facilities, Outpatient Clinics and Medical Office Building programming and planning projects. We are currently engaged in multiple projects of this type, all of which contain service lines supporting our acute care hospital clients, and their outpatient service lines. From design and construction of new medical office buildings, programming and planning fit out of existing facilities, we have completed hundreds of thousands square feet in clinical environment of care planning and programming.
One size doesn’t fit all: designing for the right users.
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit is a space designed for the treatment of pediatric cancer patients and their families. Instead of accessing light through traditional exterior windows, the new patient rooms gain daylight access through the atrium of the recreation room through sky windows. By placing the patient rooms in the light filled atrium and creating an acoustical barrier both on the ceiling and in the walls, the design team was able to optimize the core space of the PICU and significantly improve patient care operations. As the centerpiece to the core, sits the nurse station with its internally illuminated face and subtle abstract pattern. Acoustical studies have been performed and the sky window design allows both patients and visitors to view the atrium skylight and exterior skyline while attenuating noise or distraction from the adjacent recreation room. Further, the sky window feature has been designed to allow for a controlled and diffused daylight environment the pediatric intensive care room to accommodate the light sensitivity needs of this critically ill patient population. This was a phased project, with an active construction site on an operational floor.
Creating opportunity out of a challenging geometric foot print to enhance the user experience.
The Lake Charles Memorial Hospital’s Medical Intensive Care Unit is a state of the art healing environment for the most sensitive patient population. This project was a multi-phase full-floor reconstruction that included 16 medical intensive care beds and supporting clinical spaces. The project was one of several, all lead by PDS, that revisioned clinical patient care standards for the hospital.
The design for this project focused on bringing a high-performing healthcare environment with a calming and comfortable place for a patient to heal. PDS worked closely with our electrical engineer to select high-quality LED fixtures, that would provide the correct skin color rendition. Patients can select from several pre-programmed lighting scenes; night-light, reading, lounge, and exam. Additionally, a high-performing acoustical ceiling tile was used on the unit to lower ambient noise levels.
The project was designed with input from clinical end-users from inception to completion. To maximize space for patient care, the design team implemented a just-in-time supply strategy. This featured pass through supply cabinets in each patient room and centralized support spaces.
Medical Inpatient Care Unit
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital
Envisioning Comfortable Care for patients and families
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Nurse Station at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center