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The new Main Lobby at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital is named for the late Robert A. Lipson, former Administrator of the Wellstar Health System.  The building exterior is finished in brick, precast concrete and glass to blend with the adjacent Patient Tower.  A colonnaded canopy welcomes patients and their families into the two-story lobby.  A large plaza, detailed with brick pavers and lush landscaping, allows easy navigation for both vehicular and pedestrian traffic.  The lobby is finished in beautiful warm-toned wood paneling and terrazzo flooring.  Clerestory windows enhance the area by allowing warm natural light to enter.  As a tribute and expression of high regard, paintings by Dr. Lipson are displayed in the Lobby Gallery.

Robert A. Lipson Center at Kennestone

As the medical industry continues to challenge building from the outside, so too does it challenge medical interior design. Unlike other built structures that see traffic at certain times of the day, hospitals and hospices are often staffed 24/7. And while interior design for hospitals in the past few decades has had a concentration on sterility and safety, recently trends have changed.

But incorporating more than safety and efficiency can be a challenge for anyone in medical interior design. By the nature of the rigors in the industry, interior design for hospitals rewrites the most basic of design rules. Yet this does not require that the finished product is dull or uninspiring. On the contrary, the form of medical interior design has taken on a new face, a face that leaves plenty of room for comfort, artistic integration, and of course, the digital component.

View Project: Robert A. Lipson Center at Kennestone

The Women’s Life Center at Southern Regional Medical Center is a facility designed for advanced care and healing within the context of a family-friendly environment. The three-story structure with its curved-entry and grand lobby offers a softer look both inside and out, rivaling the entrance to the lobby of a fine hotel. The millwork, synthetic marble floors and rich detailing help contribute to the peaceful environment. Diagnostics are located on the terrace level and provide mammography, ultrasound, bone densitometry and stereotactic breast biopsy services.

Women’s Life Center at SRMC

As the medical industry continues to challenge building from the outside, so too does it challenge medical interior design. Unlike other built structures that see traffic at certain times of the day, hospitals and hospices are often staffed 24/7. And while interior design for hospitals in the past few decades has had a concentration on sterility and safety, recently trends have changed.

But incorporating more than safety and efficiency can be a challenge for anyone in medical interior design. By the nature of the rigors in the industry, interior design for hospitals rewrites the most basic of design rules. Yet this does not require that the finished product is dull or uninspiring. On the contrary, the form of medical interior design has taken on a new face, a face that leaves plenty of room for comfort, artistic integration, and of course, the digital component.

View Project: Women’s Life Center at SRMC

Wellstar’s Cardiac CT Imaging Suite is located within the Kennestone Physicians Center. The reception lobby offers a welcoming atmosphere to patients with its warm finishes and lighting design. The cashier’s office is also located in the lobby. The CT scan room is spaciously accessible and fully equipped with a technicans controls room. The scanner is specific to performing non invasive scans for cardiac CT procedures. Nearby are two private patient recovery rooms, an employee lounge and storage. The Imaging Center is located near the patient parking deck providing convenient patient access to both the physicians offices and Kennestone Hospital.

Cardiac CT Imaging Suite at Kennestone Physicians Center

Millions of people walk the halls of hospitals every day, some seeking hope and healing, others seeking closure. Since every hospital is a place of such significance in every patient and health care professional’s life, hospital design must be implemented with the utmost care and expertise. It is so much more than a simple matter of the right function, it is a melding of the right hospital architecture and design to provide a calm, safe, and secure environment. It takes into consideration not only the experience of the patient, but also their family, caretakers, and hospital staff.

Working with seasoned professionals like CDH Partners means that this experience is heightened through the implementation of tested knowledge, and an intimate understanding of design, as well as human need and interaction . Our extensive staff of hospital design professionals, interior designers, engineers, and construction managers work seamlessly to ensure your hospital design project is an inspiring and enduring compliment to the work done within the healthcare facility.

View Project: Cardiac CT Imaging Suite at Kennestone Physicians Center

Since 1979 CDH Partners has assisted DeKalb Medical in planning more than 1,000,000 square feet of Hospital and Medical Office on the Decatur campus.  Design solutions were created to adapt to the long-term strategic initiatives of the Hospital while maintaining a patient centered philosophy. Combining outpatient service lines and maintaining critical adjacencies, helped to eliminate “sprawl” by focusing on efficient travel distances for both staff and patients. Ongoing initiatives are to create an environment that promotes healing and strives to provide convenient and intuitive way-finding to relieve anxiety for each guest.

DeKalb Medical Center

Working with seasoned professionals like CDH Partners means that this experience is heightened through the implementation of tested knowledge, and an intimate understanding of design, as well as human need and interaction . Our extensive staff of hospital design professionals, interior designers, engineers, and construction managers work seamlessly to ensure your hospital design project is an inspiring and enduring compliment to the work done within the healthcare facility.

The key to a beautiful, functional, and exceptional building is never in one particular ingredient. It’s a combination, a synthesis, of many aspects working as a whole. And knowing that led us to perfect our approach by offering so many services essential to the most effective hospital design under one roof at CDH Partners.

View Project: DeKalb Medical Center

In one of the nation’s fastest growing counties, a new physicians’ medical office building opened in October 2007. Built on a new site, the medical office building is the first phase of the Master Plan of a future hospital campus in Paulding County. The three-story building exterior is composed of two warm hues of red brick with cast stone band, metal paneling, and glass that allows amplitude of warm natural daylight. The two entrances have a canopy drop-off for convenient client access to the building. In a future phase the medical office building will connect to the new hospital campus.

Paulding Physicians Center

As baby boomers come of age, the face of the healthcare industry is changing rapidly. Add to that the speed at which technology is moving, and it makes for a very dynamic environment for healthcare architects and architecture. Innovation is at the heart of superior design in the healthcare industry, helping to pave the way for more efficient care, and more groundbreaking research.

To learn more about the CDH Partners approach to healthcare architecture, design, and building, contact us at 770.423.0016.

View Project: Paulding Physicians Center

This new addition increases Henry Medical’s inpatient capacity from 124 beds to 215. The new facilities include cardiac services and comprehensive outpatient diagnostic services strategically located in one central area. Women’s and children’s services in the new building include: ante partum, labor and delivery, postpartum services, gynecological care, newborn nursery and neonatal intensive care. For comfort, a Hospitality Suite has been created on the second floor for visitors waiting on patients in Critical Care and Labor & Delivery.

Henry Medical Center

Millions of people walk the halls of hospitals every day, some seeking hope and healing, others seeking closure. Since every hospital is a place of such significance in every patient and health care professional’s life, hospital design must be implemented with the utmost care and expertise. It is so much more than a simple matter of the right function, it is a melding of the right hospital architecture and design to provide a calm, safe, and secure environment. It takes into consideration not only the experience of the patient, but also their family, caretakers, and hospital staff.

View Project: Henry Medical Center