How Many Patients Go to the Stead Family Childrens Hospital

Academy of Iowa

Stead Family Children'south Infirmary

the backstory

The University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital (SFCH) is the cornerstone development initiative that inspired a comprehensive new campus masterplan. As a University and academic medical heart fundamentally embedded into the material and geography of Iowa Metropolis, SFCH reimagined the role of nature, lite, and community date. This initiative streamlines healthcare services, elevates innovation, and fosters a new era of patient care delivery.  The xiv-story oval tower and its welcoming plaza is a planning and blueprint revolution for the district, and a striking symbol of pride in progressive pediatric care.  Heery Pattern, A SLAM Studio, designed the project with Foster + Partnersserving equally Design Builder on the outside and ZGF providing integrated environment design.

at-a-glance

PRACTICE:

Architecture

Interior Design

Programming & Planning

STATUS:

Completed in 2017

During the schematic and design development phases, the blueprint team met regularly with a Family Informational Committee, a Youth Advisory Commission, equally well as user groups.  Their efforts resulted in efficiencies, themes, amenities, and future-state readiness with current-state inventiveness and innovation.  Four working patient room mock-ups were fully finished and furnished for public tours, staff training, donor involvement, and IT refinement.  Several public open houses were held to encourage community feedback and showcase the planning and pattern progress.  Highlighted were detailed studies on color theory, building orientation, wayfinding, and the enhanced campus experience.

To maximize limited site availability, an existing hospital parking structure was demolished and replaced with four secret parking levels. This enabled creation of a footing level plaza that features a lush park through which families enter the existing hospital. The new parking structure too allows straight and accessible wayfinding to the Children'south Hospital.  Patients, families, visitors and staff are able to easily walk betwixt the existing hospital and new belfry, enhancing the patient experience.

Natural daylight plays a key role in the design, which incorporates unprecedented amounts of drinking glass in a hospital facility. This contributes to healing as well equally creating a welcoming community landmark. Designers were conscientious to study orientation and all-time practices in shading to determine optimum glazing and envelope materials while achieving spectacular views. 7 "light wells" rhythmically spaced throughout each floor let for light to be driven into the interior cadre of the building, improving staff well-being and wayfinding.

Entry processional to the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital overlooks the park and plaza area, located above the hole-and-corner parking structure.

The extensive input from patients and families is evident in the inpatient rooms. The massive 7 pes by 13 foot window provides spectacular views and much appreciated natural daylight.

Hawkeye fans break afterwards the first quarter of each football game game and straight their free energy and excitement to the hospitalized children through "The Wave," a ritual that accentuates the of import part this iconic building serves within the fabric of the city and the country of Iowa.

The building is an iconic structure visible throughout the University of Iowa Campus and Iowa City.  Children'due south services take been centralized, creating a seamless, innovative system of intendance for children and their families.

Patients, families, and staff are invited to enjoy the outdoor eating areas, gardens, and play areas, all with views from the inside.  Outside looking in, patients may enjoy the dynamic interior antechamber of the building.

In the lobby, children and families are invited to utilise technology to create images that project on the white triangle wall through an app on their phone or and iPad.

Visitors are greeted by wayfinding that uses unique colors for each flooring and graphic icons linked to the patchwork quilt concept, depicting Iowa's vibrant farmlands, woodlands, prairies, rivers, and skies.

The building features many elements of distraction for the children and families akin.

Gathering spaces are located in the viii calorie-free wells on each floor, allowing natural daylight to flood the space and continue into the core of the floor through glass entryways.

Through diligent inquiry, thought and blueprint the Stead Family Children'south Infirmary has greatly improved the campus and feel of patients, families, staff and visitors.

2018, IIDA (International Interior Pattern "People's Selection Award" Association) Corking Plains Affiliate

2018, SCCM (Society of Critical Care "Intensive Care Unit of the Year" Medicine) AACCN (American Association of Disquisitional Care Nurses) & AIA (American Establish of Architects)

2018, HCD (Healthcare Design) "Citation of Merit" Highest Award

2018, HCD (Healthcare Design) "Citation of Merit" Highest Accolade, University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital

2018, European Healthcare Design "Healthcare Pattern (over 20,000 sqm)", University of Iowa Stead Family Children'due south Hospital

2018, European Healthcare Blueprint "Interior Design and the Arts", Academy of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital

Project Contacts

Hannah Roush, AIA, LEED AP BD & C

Project Architect

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Source: https://slamcoll.com/case-study/94/university-iowa

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