Insights & Solutions

The goal of this project was to work with Filadelfia Epilepsy Hospital to ensure optimal physical settings that create a positive and productive synergy with the processes and clinical pathways taking place within them. 

The goal of this project was to create a care environment that gives patients control over their environment, and reduce stress levels. By providing patient choice of infusion room layouts, the goals of the project are, increasing satisfaction and enhancing hope, and encouraging social interaction.

To design a 20,575-sf build-out of a high-risk obstetrics unit at Akron Children's Hospital, providing an adult-focused patient experience within a pediatric facility.

The goal for this project was to design the Southwest Centre for Forensic Mental Health Care was to challenge the aesthetic typically associated with that of a forensic detention facility, while focusing on supporting the client’s healing process. 

The goal of this project was to maximize direct patient care activities and increase caregiver efficiency while incorporating the use of evidence-base design principles in the delivery of a two-floor, 52,000-square-foot children’s hospital expansion including both general pediatric beds and a pediatric intensive care unit. 

The goal of this project was to create an assisted living environment that offers an exceptional resident experience through a design that emulates a home-like environment and supports operational efficiencies to allow staff to better manage and care for a resident population with diverse and increasing acuity levels, so they may age in place.

The goal of this project was to address issues of satisfaction and comfort for patients who are predominantly sight impaired and have compromised mobility through intentional EBD lighting solutions. Additionally, evidence on color and layout informed the space planning in the design, facilitating improved wayfinding and safe navigation. 

The goal of this project was to create a quieter experience in the Cardiac Care Unit. Kahler Slater completed a two-phased Sound Study to help identify ways to decrease noise.

The goal of this project was to design a layout for the new family medicine clinic at The University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation that supports patient self-rooming (an innovation in their clinic setting). The self-rooming concept helps reduce wait times for patients, improves infection control, increases privacy and maximizes staff efficiency.

The goal of this project was to bring the benefit of the natural calming powers of nature to clients and their families through visual and direct access to nature provided throughout the interior and exterior of the Stanley Tippett hospice. To allow clients that are able, and their families to enjoy direct access to outdoor spaces that include visual interest, color and shade including a variety of spaces for small and large groups.