Pandemic effect: Hospital design
The Critical Care Pavilion (K) of the Jewish General Hospital was completed from 2009-2016 by Jodoin Lamarre Pratte, Gross Kaplin Coviensky and Marosi Troy. Photo Stéphane Groleau
TEXT Michel Broz, Partner, Jodoin Lamarre Pratte architectes
Planning new hospital facilities is a long-term process, sometimes spanning more than a decade. This process has to take into account a plethora of parameters: demographic and socio-medical projections, evolution of technology, and risks such as a global pandemic. Investing in preventative measures to mitigate such risks is costly, and can be difficult to justify politically, since their likelihood is not easily assessed. However, when we now consider the costs of the COVID-19 crisis?whether in the loss of lives, construction of improvised infrastructure, or mental stress endured by society at large?investing in the necessary resources to be well prepared seems like an obvious choice. In Quebec, certain hospitals have been visionary in integrating infection-disaster preparedness systems, policies, and programming elements within their new facilities.
The 350,000-square-metre CHUM project in Montreal was programmed more than ten years ago. (The first phase, by CannonDesign and NEUF, opened in 2018; phase two, by Jodoin Lamarre Pratte and MSDL, is set to open in spring 2021.) Even so, the possibility of having to accommodate a sudden influx of highly infectious patients was considered, such as in the planning of an isolation unit for re...
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