Designing Environments for Pediatric Care

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Baystate Medical Center Springfield, Massachusetts

Steffian Bradley Architects creates built environments that inspire.

We engage with our clients by setting a stage where we ask questions, listen carefully, respond thoughtfully and deliver the highest quality of professional services through this collaborative process. Combined with our broad-ranging expertise and experience we develop innovative solutions that have resulted in a long history of award winning projects and lasting client relationships.

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Baystate Children’s Specialty Center Springfield, Massachusetts

Stand the Test of Time Since opening in 1932, SBA has evolved into a recognized leader in the architectural and interior design professions. There is no project too big or small for SBA, from our 3 million square foot high-rise towers in China, to our 2,000 square foot suite renovations in Boston; we have expertise in the planning, programming, and design of residential, commercial, academic, and healthcare facilities of all sizes and scales.

With offices across the globe, in North America, Europe and Asia, we bring the ingenuity and experience needed to solve the challenges of each unique project. This global reach keeps us

abreast of the latest international trends in design and sustainability, while our regional offices allow us to interact closely with our clients: giving you the best of both worlds.

Our Most Valuable Asset Our talented staff forms the cornerstone of SBA. Our people frequently speak at national industry conferences, are published in professional journals and magazines, and are recognized for our accomplishments and passion. Design matters to us and the creative process resonates throughout everything we do. We do this because we love it. You’ll love us because we are good at it.

Design Philosophy

At SBA, we are a design-led practice specializing in environmentally and socially responsible buildings that enrich and respect the communities they serve.

Our designs are imaginative, intelligent, and rational, reflecting our ability to interpret complex briefs for both present and future use. Our firm’s legacy is demonstrated in every detail of our work.

We know that the legacy of a building must be far greater than just its image and function. It must contribute to the

vitality of the program in a changing environment. It must also be a good ‘neighbor’ whose presence is carefully woven into the campus fabric and which can accommodate the future.

Given our own history, we understand the importance of building long-term relationships. We take building your campus environment very seriously and aim to earn your trust based on our performance, exceeding your aspirations.

Baystate Medical Center Springfield, Massachusetts

Healthcare Design

The healthcare industry is one of the most complex markets today, requiring innovative vision combined with expert planning and design strategies. With physical campuses that are often built over decades, healthcare environments have diverse needs requiring flexibility for both current and future demands on the facilities.

Designers must plan for and understand these constantly evolving technologies and models of care through our research and evidence based design practices.

SBA has worked with more than 200 healthcare organizations around the world. With all this experience, we have developed the tools and resources to lead clients through the complicated process of planning for tomorrow while using the resources of today. Using LEAN tools SBA is able to guide our clients through a process of continual improvement understanding the benefits of early planning integration. We pride ourselves on fostering long-term strategic partnerships that span decades of service.

SBA has worked on more than 1,000 healthcare projects worldwide. We have expertise in planning and designing for every type of healthcare facility for inpatient, outpatient, and residential healthcare and support needs.

Baystate Children’s Specialty Center Springfield, Massachusetts

Boston Children’s Hospital North Peabody, Massachusetts

Peds Design Considerations

01 Family Centered Care Our design uses the principles and strategies of patient and family centered care to improve the built environment and thereby contribute to improved outcomes, greater safet y, higher satisfaction and cost efficiencies.

02 Flexibility of Design SBA places great emphasis on appropriate adjacencies for different age levels and varied health conditions, while still allowing flexibility of service for patients and their caregivers.

03 Guiding Principles SBA designs pediatric healthcare environments to divert patients’ attention with strategic and whimsical interior design. We create these environments to appeal to a range of age groups through the use of views of nature, innovative lighting design, patterns, colors and images that all can understand and enjoy.

04 Sustainability SBA’s approach to sustainability is one that considers environmental, social and financial issues to evaluate potential “green” strategies and ensure that they are the correct ones for each client’s specific project.

05 International In 2002, SBA strengthened its international presence with the opening of a London office. In 2005, we opened an office in Guangzhou, China and in 2012, in Vancouver, Canada. Our current management is collectively led by 18 Principals.

06 Team SBA is committed to a core team, with ongoing, direct and personal knowledge of the history of the client and commitment to the project from start to finish.

Boston Children’s Hospital Waltham, Massachusetts

Boston Children’s Hospital Waltham, Massachusetts

Tufts Medical Center Pediatric Hematology Suite Boston, MA. 5,000 SF SBA completed this renovation of an existing space in Tufts Medical Center into a pediatric hematology oncology suite. A tree house theme was carried throughout the space, with a focus on finishes to aid health recovery. SBA incorporated Tufts Medical Center’s interior design standards into the space, while still creating a unique environment for the pediatric clientele.

The design theme of “tree house” was chosen to engage children and help them to feel more positive about their experience in the space. Existing columns and mechanical shafts were transformed into tree trunks, and the tree motif is also reflected in the floor graphics that help with wayfinding and flow.

Tufts Medical Center Waiting and Reception

Tufts Medical Center Waiting and Reception

Tufts Medical Center Clinical Space

Tufts Medical Center Waiting and Reception

Boston Children’s at Brookline Place Lobby Area

Boston Children’s Hospital Boston Children’s at Brookline Place Brookline, MA. 90,000 SF Steffian Bradley Architects (SBA) is currently providing architectural services for the fit-out of Boston Children’s Hospital Two Brookline Place Project, one piece of BCH’s four part essential expansion and renewal projects currently undergoing, known as Transforming Tomorrow.

This new 8-story building will house the country’s topranked children’s hospital’s ambulatory clinical programs among approximately 90,000 sf of space. Special design consideration was needed to create an environment that was friendly and conducive for children and adults with ASD, the visually impaired, and pain patients. The character of the space was designed around the theme “The Amazing You”, highlighting how one explores the world through each sense. Key program elements include a Neurodevelopment Center for Excellence of 76 exam rooms, a pain clinic of five exam rooms, physical therapy/ occupational therapy (including a hydrotherapy pool, therapy gym, sensory room) diagnostic & treatment space (including radiography, ultrasound) radiology (with 7T MRI & research space) and clinical support space including a pharmacy. This project is designed to achieve LEED Silver Certification.

Boston Children’s at Brookline Place Waiting Area

Boston Children’s Hospital at Waltham Imaging Center Waltham, MA. 16,570 SF

Steffian Bradley Architects designed a patient and family-centered Imaging Suite at Boston Children’s Hospital at Waltham, a satellite facility to the downtown hospital. Technical functions and staff areas radiate off from the reception and waiting area, giving staff the ability to circulate freely and help them maintain tight schedules with maximum flexibility and reduced stress for both staff and patients.

Earth tones of purple, brown, green, and blue encompass the Imaging Suite to invoke “forest” surroundings. In the reception and waiting areas, structural columns appear as tree trunks reaching up to the clouds above and elliptical ceiling panels suggest a scattering of leaves overhead. Warm indirect lighting pours down from the ceiling as sunlight from above.

The natural forms and artwork continue into the ultrasound rooms, radiography rooms and MRI to help distract and soothe the patients during procedures.

For instance, a child laying on the radiography bed can focus on the glowing lights around him as they change from blues to pinks and back again. And in the MRI children can watch the backlit glass artwork on the ceiling while lying on the MRI bed.

Boston Children’s Hospital Imaging Center Receeption

Boston Children’s Hospital Imaging Center Floor Plan

Boston Children’s Hospital Imaging Center Radiographic Room

Boston Children’s Hospital North Upper Level Public Corridor

Boston Children’s Hospital North Exam Room

Boston Children’s Hospital North Lobby Area

Boston Children’s Hospital North Lobby Area

Boston Children’s Hospital North Lobby Area

Boston Children’s Hospital Boston Children’s North Peabody, MA. 43,000 SF Boston Children’s North is Boston Children’s Hospital’s new satellite outpatient facility located in Peabody, Massachusetts. The two-story ambulatory center is located on the northeast corner of an existing building, and encompasses approximately 43,000 square feet of renovated and newly constructed space. The new center includes Radiology and Clinical Specialties facilities. It was designed with the facility’s pediatric clientele in mind and features bright colors, engaging art and whimsical public spaces. Accommodating patients up to their early twenties, the design is fanciful, yet sophisticated.

The new façade lets plentiful natural light into the facility. Daylight was also used to create an interior Kaleidoscope theme, with the help of colors, shapes and mobile elements.

Baystate Children’s Specialty Center Wellness Corridor Baystate Children’s Specialty Center Neighborhood Nurse Station

Baystate Medical Center Children’s Specialty Center Springfield, MA. 30,000 SF The new Children’s Specialty Center will conveniently organize their pediatric specialties under one roof and put Baystate’s patients and families at the center of well-coordinated care. This project centers around Baystate’s concept of ImagiCare, an aspiration to provide positive and memorable healthcare visits for families and patients through fun, interactive experiences that alleviate the sometimes negative connotations associated with visiting the doctor. The waiting room and reception in the new Specialty Center has been designated the ‘Playtrium’, a place where children of all ages can find a place to sit and relax or explore with their families.

Patients leave the Playtrium and travel down the Wellness Path under a sculptural color changing cloud weaving their way to the medical Neighborhoods. Each neighborhood is defined by a color range, reiterated at each exam room with an identifying hue wrapping from the corridor into each unique room. The Center is divided into five Neighborhoods to reduce the overall feel of the clinic and thus reduce the walking distance for both patients and staff.

Baystate Children’s Specialty Center Playtrium Waiting Area and Reception

Baystate Medical Center The Playdeck Springfield, MA. 2,500 SF

The Children’s Hospital Playdeck is an indoor/ outdoor area dedicated to play and learning.

The fully renovated Playdeck, at the heart of the Children’s critical care area, provides a whimsical retreat geared toward imagination for children of all ages.

The theme of neighborhoods used at the hospital’s Children’s Specialties Center is echoed through the Playdeck’s five separate colorful ‘zones.’ The open-plan indoor and outdoor spaces are separated into five zones or neighborhoods - a cozy reading nook, an interactive play area, a toddler play zone, an art therapy space, and an imaginative outdoor deck. The zones are subtly defined by changes

to floor patterns, colors, material, and millwork design. A meandering path fills the void between the circular spaces. The vibrant exterior Playdeck space features artificial turf and rubberized flooring to recreate the sense of play and of an endless summer for long and short-term stay pediatric patients.

For a relatively compact footprint, the design of the space needed to accommodate many needs and functions. The Playdeck functions as a play space, movie night room, reading getaway, 94.7 WMAS Children’s Hospital Radiothon home base, Griffin’s Friend’s Learning Center, Art Therapy Room, and more.

Baystate Medical Center The Playdeck Interior

Baystate Medical Center The Imaginary Outdoor Deck

Baystate Medical Center The Art Therapy Zone Baystate Medical Center The Cozy Reading Nook

Baystate Medical Center Play Area

Baystate Medical Center The Floor Plan

Baystate Medical Center Interactive Floor

Baystate Medical Center Emergency Department Nurse Station

Baystate Medical Center Emergency Department Waiting Room

Baystate Medical Center Emergency Department Waiting Room

Baystate Medical Center Emergency Department

Baystate Medical Center Emergency and Trauma Center Springfield, MA. 72,000 SF The new facility is planned as a series of pods organized by acuity – starting with trauma services and resuscitation care, and ending with a new urgent care area. The pods were designed with support spaces in the center, and feature half-height walls to increase visibility. Because the plan is so large, natural light was limited to the public areas. To offset this, all corridors and central pod areas utilize lit ceilings to simulate natural light. In addition to lighting, each pod has a unique color and art scheme to assist with orientation of both patients and staff.

The Pediatric Waiting Room is set up so parents and children wait separately from the grownup emergency room with all its disturbing sights of injured or ill grownups The interiors utilize warm, inviting colors and even the nurse stations have a dose of whimsy. Being child-centered translates down to kid-sized commodes in the restrooms and child-sized wheelchairs.

Baystate Medical Center Procedure Suite and Infusion Center Springfield, MA. 11,500 SF

Baystate Children’s Family Waiting

This project is one step toward relocating and modernizing the Children’s Hospital on BMC’s Main Campus. BCH is the only accredited full service children’s hospital in western Massachusetts. Their services range from primary to advanced care for babies, children, and adolescents, with a strong focus on family.

This proposed pediatric suite, encompassing Hematology, Oncology, and Procedure Care, provides the community with a stronger comprehensive pediatric care center right at the heart of the Pioneer Valley.

The space has capacity for ten patients at a time on the Procedure side and six patients on the Hematology/Oncology side.

The design echoes previous BCH architectural branding and features special design elements such as color-changing LED lighting, specialty ceilings, GoGraphics wall coverings and interactive features to provide playful diversions.

Baystate Children’s Procedure Room

Designers worked closely through schematic design with users, creating physical mockups for staff and the Patient Family Advisory Group to react to.

Baystate Children’s Hospital Procedures Suite Corridor Baystate Children’s Corrdor and Procedure Bays

Walsall Manor Hospital Walsall, United Kingdom

Walsall Manor Hospital Women’s, Children’s and Young Patients Unit Walsall, UK. 487,500 SF Walsall Manor Hospital is a revitalization project, offering a new state-of-the-art hospital to promote the ongoing regeneration of the surrounding town. The new hospital inclues a Diagnostic Treatment Center, Women, Children and Young Person’s Unit, Operating Theaters, Pathology, Education Center and Acute Wards.

The estate surrounding the existing and new buildings is being re-planned to provide a safe and healthy environment with approximately 1,400 parking spaces. Overall, SBA has designed a modern and safe, serviceable, attractive and secure Hospital for the residents of Walsall.

The new building provides a large civic entrance, a generous naturally lit public realm, including a restaurant and concourses to the major departments. The new development offers robust circuits for electricity, heating, data and circulation of facilities management activities. The phased construction was undertaken without diminishing services, facilitated by the provision of a temporary restaurant on the main site and additional car parking nearby.

Walsall Manor Hospital Corridor

Walsall Manor Hospital Corridor

Walsall Manor Hospital Public Atrium

Springfield, MA. 14,000 SF With the growing need to pull outpatient services off the main campus and provide services in the community Baystate Health’s Outpatient Women’s Center provides services for both screening and diagnostic patients.

The organization of the room adjacencies is critical to maintain the patient flow in the ‘front-of-house’ completely separate from the staff flow and operations in the ‘back-ofhouse’. Screening and diagnostic patient flows were separated decreasing the anxiety for both patients and families. Staff work areas are integrated behind the clinical rooms with a separate ‘staff only’ corridor. Finishes, plumbing fixtures and lighting have been selected to create a residential/non-clinical environment. Careful consideration to sustainable materials has been included. Artwork and final material selections have been coordinated not only aesthetically by also as a means of wayfinding.

Baystate Health Women’s Outpatient Center Waiting

Baystate Health Women’s Outpatient Center

Baystate Health Women’s Outpatient Center

Baystate Health Stereotactic Room

Baystate Children’s Procedures Springfield, Massachusetts

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