The expansion and renewal of the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital was celebrated today. A ribbon-cutting ceremony officially opened the new Ambulatory Care Building designed by Gibbs Gage Architects and Diamond Schmitt Architects in joint venture.
Ambulatory Care Building, Medicine Hat Regional Hospital. Photo via Diamond Schmitt Architects.
?A human centric approach has informed all aspects of our clinical planning to ensure the safe, efficient delivery of clinical services within a soothing, de-stressed environment.? said Greg Colucci, Principal, Diamond Schmitt Architects. ?The commitment to patient care is expressed architecturally throughout, from the welcoming and sheltered wood-lined entry, comfortable waiting areas, and private, light-filled treatment rooms that offer views of the vast prairie sky.?The 245,000-square-foot (22,793 sm) addition significantly transforms this important community hospital: ambulatory care clinics, labour and delivery suites, NICU and major surgical facilities have all been expanded and consolidated. A central atrium resets the building?s focus and provides a new community gathering space for the entire hospital, connects in-patient spaces from within the existing hospital to the new facilities and renews public areas in a spacious, light-filled environment. Patient services across four floors feature registration, maternal and renal clinics on the ground floor and day medicine, ambulatory care and cancer clinics on the second. Dedicated co...