Our healthcare architects understand the business of healthcare and are cognizant of the practical as well as aesthetic issues that must be mediated in health care facility design and planning. We have designed medical facilities and ambulatory clinics that serve as revenue centers, upgraded outmoded facilities without interrupting operations, and planned campuses that move patients efficiently through a system of care. As integrated networks, wellness, education, and new concepts became the norm, we grasped the economic ramifications and impact of a full spectrum of physical responses, from capital investment to operating expenses. Our healthcare architecture and planning begin with an understanding of the provider's mission and the vision of a flexible, healing environment that embraces change. ‹ less
Health Care
2 projects
Department of Veterans Affairs, Cares Tower
Westlake Reed Leskosky, in association with Cannon Design was retained by the Department of Veterans Affairs to design and implement the new Cares Tower and hospital expansion at the Louis Stokes VA Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The project consolidates services currently offered at the Brecksville facility into one facility. The bed tower expansion measures 268,000 square feet and will include 260 beds in a 8 story structure. Project construction...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Hillcrest Hospital Major Campus Expansion
Hillcrest Hospital serves a four county region in Northeastern Ohio-a population requiring broader healthcare services than when the hospital was built in 1968. It is one of only six hospitals in the US to be ranked ten times among the nation's Top 100 Hospitals and a Top 100 Hospital for its cardiovascular services by Thomson Healthcare. Continuing a two-decade consultancy relationship with Hillcrest Hospital that has encompassed more...
Acute Care
13 projects
Banner Health System, Banner Baywood Heart Hospital
The $13 million expansion and renovation of Cardio-Vascular ICU and Telemetry nursing units for Banner Baywood Heart Hospital in Mesa, Arizona was designed with integrated engineering and a "real-time" design process. The project includes: the fit-out of 32,000 sf of shell space on the hospital's 5th floor for Cardio-Vascular ICU rooms and Telemetry and remodeling of existing Telemetry unit on the 4th floor.
Banner Health System, Banner Thunderbird Medical Center
Westlake Reed Leskosky programmed and master planned this family-focused campus expansion and renovation.The initial $49.5 million phase of the project was completed in 2001 and includes 110,000 SF of new space and 44,000 SF of remodeled space for patient care, laboratory and support space. A highly successful Women's and Infants Center followed, and additional expansions for cardiology and other departments will increase the medical center's capacity to 292 beds, making...
Banner Health System, Baywood Medical Center
Westlake Reed Leskosky designed a new 7-story bedtower addition, a new wing to house the imaging department, several new support buildings including a 640-space parking garage, and extensively remodeled the existing bedtower. The overriding principle behind the work was to create a user-friendly environment of healing hospitality. Hospital functions continued uninterrupted during construction with minimal disruptions to service delivery. Key issues included designing within a tight, urban campus with zoning...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Euclid Hospital Emergency Department
In 2007, Westlake Reed Leskosky completed a $4.8 million expansion of the Emergency Department for this 371-bed hospital. The expanded Emergency Department provides 13 new exam rooms, a new two-bay trauma room, decontamination room, and 7 renovated exam spaces. Organized with the exam rooms surrounding a central staff work core, the design allows surveillance of all rooms, the ability to allocate space to specialized functions, and expedites the time patients...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Heart Hospital
As a major innovator in the field of cardiovascular care, the client required a dramatic increase in the facilities available for both surgical procedures and post-operative care, specifically intensive care units. The new structure was planned in the form of an addition complementary to the existing structure and was designed with an emphasis on patient/visitor comforts and state-of-the-art cardiovascular care. Each surgery is outfitted with a blood conditioning system to...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Hillcrest Hospital West Tower
In the context of a $150M master planned capital project, the firm was retained to analyze three options for developing expansion of medical surgical beds with a $40M budget and an accelerated construction process. The resultant West Wing is comprised of two floors of vertical expansion over two floors of renovated space for services including surgery, oncology, ICU and PACU. An addition to the first floor houses an enlarged Radiation...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Lakewood Hospital Master Plan
Lakewood Hospital is a 400-bed acute care, community hospital serving more than 130,000 patients in several buildings ranging in age from 1912 to 2002. Westlake Reed Leskosky was retained in 2006 to perform a Master Plan Feasibility Study in order to evaluate the existing facility and determine an action plan for improvements. The Study addressed several key project initiatives, including: facilitating or strengthening programs related to specialty services lines; converting...
Saint Vincent Health Center, Saint Vincent Health Center
This major renovation and expansion project was initiated by the client's desire to solve several fundamental problems: simplification of the unplanned circulation system, replacement of obsolete critical care and OB/GYN units with designs responsive to a newly adopted patient-focused care approach, replacement of laboratory and diagnostic cardiology suites, decentralized nurse stations to bring staff closer to patients, development and relocation of a new entry, and creation of a strong public...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Westlake Reed Leskosky engaged in a facilities assessment for the Sheikh Khalifa Medical Center site in 2007. The scope include the assessment of forty-one (41) buildings totaling over 1,300,000 sf. Assessment included architectural, medical, mechanical, electrical, structural and all other systems on the 100 acre main campus site.
In addition to this, Westlake Reed Leskosky evaluated sixteen (16) clinic buildings throughout Abu Dhabi totaling over 550,000 sf. The...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, South Pointe Hospital
With surgery as the cornerstone, the 100,000 square foot expansion creates a distinctive and highly visible, new entry to the campus; a technologically advanced surgery center and intensive care unit with an innovative, 4-bed decentralized nursing module; and a comprehensive medical education center. The project includes conference facilities and a 150-seat auditorium funded by a $6 million grant from The Brentwood Foundation for medical education and community use. Serving the...
Department of Veterans Affairs, Surgery Center
Westlake Reed Leskosky was commissioned by the Department of Veteran Affairs to design a 2-story addition to the existing 6-story hospital facility. The building houses surgery on the ground floor and ICU/recovery suite on the second floor, as well as a relocated entry. The existing building was distinctly institutional in nature, but had the advantage of a substantial setback from the street, a lightly rolling terrain an a nature stand...
Salem Community Hospital, Surgery Center Expansion
This new 32,000 sf, two-story surgery center includes a suite of six operating rooms arranged around a sterile core with potential for future expansion to eight ORs. The design provides natural light, logical circulation separating staff, public and patient traffic, and maximizes adaptability/flexibility. Adjacent inpatient and ambulatory areas are each other's overflow space and feature universal bays to handle pre- and post-operative patients. Intended to blend with...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Twinsburg Family Health and Surgery Center
Westlake Reed Leskosky master planned and designed the multi-phase development of an award winning new 80-acre suburban medical campus. The first two phases encompass a 160,000 sf Family Health Center and 304,000 sf complex comprised of an Emergency Department, Ambulatory Surgery Center and 140-bed hospital. A third phase is planned for an additional bed tower with outparcels for specific areas of care. The design challenge involved issues of...
Infrastructure
2 projects
Salem Community Hospital, Central Plant Replacement
This uniquely intelligent Central Plant replacement deploys sustainable design meeting LEED silver certification, and innovative engineering technology that exceed standard healthcare requirements to meet the hospital's current loads, potential emergencies, and future expansions. The entirely new 76,000 square foot Central Plant is one of the first healthcare plants in the country of its size to deploy rotary flywheel technology for uninterrupted power, an innovative green battery-free power source for the...
Maricopa Integrated Health System, Maricopa County Medical Center
Westlake Reed Leskosky was involved in several capital improvement projects at Maricopa County Medical Center. These projects include substantial engineering work such as the replacement of two air handling units (one serving the OR and the other serving ICU, PICU, SICU, and NICU), replacement of two cooling towers, and central plant modifications.
Outpatient
5 projects
University Hospital Health System, Chagrin Highlands Medical Center
This highly flexible, free-standing medical office building takes advantage of a prominent site to create a welcoming presence for outpatient programs including oncological care and treatment, cardiovascular rehabilitation, internal medicine and women's health within 100,000 gsf of space. The rippling skin of diamond shaped stainless steel shingles and glass is prompted by the freeway location, creating a dazzling and kinetic effect, also allowing visibility into the building waiting areas.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Crile Building
The Crile Building was designed in a joint venture association with architect Cesar Pelli and consists of 12 floors containing surgery, laboratories, therapy, records, occupational and physical therapy, dietary facilities, radiology, and support services for 16 of the foundation's 28 clinical departments as well as physicians offices, public reception and lobby space. Westlake Reed Leskosky was responsible for the Master Plan, Working Drawings, Contract Documents and Contract Administration.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Digestive Disease Center
This clinical, educational, and research center is the country's largest multidisciplinary facility for the diagnosis and treatment of digestive diseases. The third floor of the Clinic's Crile Building was renovated to encompass a four-room motility suite, 10-room endoscopy unit with associated 30-bed recovery room, a 16-room colorectal procedure area, a 14-room GI exam suite, and a six-room Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, as well as staff and physician offices. We provided...
Summit Tri-Star Digestive Wellness Center, Digestive Wellness Center
Westlake Reed Leskosky has designed a new 11,700 square foot medical office building in Norton, Ohio. Supporting the needs of two physician practices, the program is organized into two sides: endoscopy (2 procedure rooms and 9 patient bays) and more general medical office space (7 exam rooms and 2 special procedure rooms) with support offices for staff in the center. Each of the spaces has its own waiting room and...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Hillcrest Medical Center MOB
A welcoming atmosphere for patients and maximum flexibility for lease space were important design criteria for this 117,000sf M.O.B. A tree-shaded atrium, highly visible day or night from the road, provides the medical campus with a new main entrance. It encloses an intimate food court with cafe style seating and provides flexible areas for a variety of hospital and public functions, for example, exhibitions on preventive health, art exhibitions, concerts...
Research
2 projects
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Debra Ann November Wing, The Lerner School for Autism
The new Debra Ann November Wing, The Lerner School for Autism, at Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital is a benchmark facility for the programming and design of an environment specifically for people with autism, from infants to early adulthood. The 24,000 square foot single-story building expresses a strong modernist simplicity and clarity of purpose, with a forward-thinking image that supports one of the country's premier healthcare institutions and its leadership in...
Case Western Reserve University, Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building
This new 332,000 gross square foot Research Building transforms the typical research lab, hidden behind closed doors, into collaborative architecture that is visible, open, and engaging. Designed as a response to its tight site in Cleveland' University Circle, the architecture projects its research image on the urban street front through its materiality and transparency; yet is carved away in deference to the residential scale to its north side. Putting a...
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Jumping Off the Bandwagon
The Value of Originality in Healing Environments
Originality and vision in medical work enhances outcomes. Because designers often latch onto aesthetic healthcare trends, all healthcare buildings of a certain period begin to look the same. This homogenization of style engenders its own iconography of institutionalism.
We must approach healthcare design with a fresh eye, eschewing trends and institutional form in favor of an approach that resonates with local culture and community, concerning itself with human use and meaning.
This can be accomplished by embracing design goals rather than definitive design maneuvers to create a welcoming and nurturing healing environment that is stylistically distinct.




























































































































































