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Bronson Methodist Hospital
Kalamazoo, Mich.
Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott
A well-planned health center offers
multidimensional care
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This new, 750,000 square-foot, full-service
medical campus combines medical offices, ambulatory care,
an inpatient hospital, and parking into a cohesive patient
experience that refines the "medical mall" planning
concept.
Medical specialties are arranged horizontally
within a series of linked buildings, to permit easy transition
from arrival to medical office, to ambulatory, to inpatient
care. Each level is devoted to a particular specialty. The
garden level provides service functions including a healing
garden that serves as the "heart" of the complex
and a focal point for a series of linked multi-story atria
that extend from the garage to the inpatient pavilion. Level
one houses diagnostic imaging and emergency, orthopedic beds
and a trauma/burn ICU unit; level two is surgical services;
level three is women’s and children’s services;
and level four contains cardiology and oncology services.
Sited at the edge of a mid-sized downtown
commercial district and a residential neighborhood, the solution
required considerable sensitivity to scale in responding to
the modest environs. The facility takes a holistic approach
to healing, featuring indoor gardens, a natural color palette,
art, intuitive wayfinding, considerable natural light, and
patient access to medical information. A continuous ribbon
of bedrooms that ranges from acute at one end to intensive
care at the other, with a string of rooms in the middle that
are changeable in use depending on patient population, makes
this a very flexible facility. The project has acted as a
catalyst for further redevelopment in the community, spurring
the City of Kalamazoo to regenerate its downtown core with
housing and retail.
Formal name
of Project:
Bronson Methodist Hospital - South Campus Development
Location:
Kalamazoo, Mich.
Gross square
footage:
750,000 sq. ft.
Total construction
cost:
$135 million
Owner:
Bronson Healthcare Group
Architect:
Shepley Bulfinch Richardson
and Abbott
40 Broad Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02109
617-423-1700
617-451-2420 (fax)
www.sbra.com
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