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...

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, 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...