Patient Care Tower
Occupancy: August 1996
Published August 1997
To consolidate ambulatory services and to replace outmoded inpatient facilities, a two-phase master plan was launched at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in 1990. Seven years, and the construction of the Cancer Center and the ten-story Patient Care Tower later, the hospital and medical center are at the cutting-edge of medical superiority, initiating strategic design services to accommodate its medical practices and patients. The master plan aims to link these two newer projects with the existing hospital campus, and the surrounding city of Hartford, Conn. The Patient Care Tower, a 270,000-nsf ambulatory and intensive care vertical facility, responds to the critically ill, while standing as the central focal point for Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center.
Unification of Campus
The Patient Care Tower creates a central focus point, unifying the disparate elements on the campus. Externally, the adjacent Gengras Building is echoed in the exterior detailings of the tower. Internally, Level Two links all clinical and support structures on campus as a "Main Street" of circulation. The Patient Care Tower is accessed from both front and back creating a feeling of openness with the Greater Hartford community. The tower acts as an anchor and provides pedestrian links between the recently completed 31,200-sf Cancer Center, a new Medical Office Building, and parking garage, allowing visitors easy access to other services.
Vertical Integration of Ambulatory Services
Ambulatory services are grouped around a three-level atrium which serves as the primary organizing element and establishes visual references to aid visitors in wayfinding. Upper floors house inpatient services such as Intermediate Care patient rooms and Intensive Care Units. The atrium is the spatial focus of the clinical services, functionally and visually linking the entry level rotunda with all three floors of access to the parking structure.
Flexible Planning
A rigorous planning module for both the structural bay and architectural skin is established for compatibility with all the highly repetitive program elements, such as ICU's and OR's. Critical dimensions and details are standardized throughout the facility to accommodate a broad patient mix. Operational efficiency and space planning economies are enhanced through improved horizontal and vertical departmental adjacencies, grouping similar services to create staffing synergism, such as the juxtapositioning of Cardiac Catheterization and Ambulatory Surgery.
The Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center campus redevelopment project has been widely recognized for its vision of healthcare delivery by the design, engineering, and healthcare industries. To date, this project has received eight design awards.
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Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center |
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Owner Contact:
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R. Christopher Hartley, Senior Vice President, Planning and Facilities Development
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Building Location:
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Hartford, CT UNITED STATES
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Project Type:
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Expansion,Renovation
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Principal Building Function:
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Ambulatory and Inpatient Healthcare |
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Project Delivery Method:
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Construction Management
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Project Timeline
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| Sep 1990 | Planning Start |
| Sep 1990 | Design Start |
| Aug 1993 | Construction Start |
| Aug 1996 | Target Completion |
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| Project Cost: |
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$113,000,000 |
| Construction Cost: |
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$81,000,000 |
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About These Cost Figures
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Project Includes:
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Atrium
Healthcare: Ambulatory Outpatient Clinic
Healthcare: Inpatient Acute Care
Healthcare: Intensive Care Unit
Healthcare: Surgery
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| Total GSF: |
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358,000 |
| Total NSF: |
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270,000 |
| Efficiency: |
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75% |
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Building Population:
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505 beds
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Power Req:
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total=20 watts/nsf; lightning 2.5 watts/nsf
recept=5.5 watts/nsf; equipment 12 watts/nsf
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HVAC Req:
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1.1 cfm/nsf
Five Air Handling Units:2 at 76,000 cfm1 at 65,000 cfm
1 at 45,000 cfm
1 at 44,000 cfm
Chillers:
one 550 ton steam absorption chiller
one 550 ton electric centrifugal chiller
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Structure/Foundation:
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Steel and poured in place concrete
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Builder
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Gilbane Building Company
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| Profile Created 08/01/1997 |
| Last Updated 04/04/2006 |
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The cost figures reported are supplied by the firms that submitted these
projects for publication, which in most cases are the designers or builders.
Whereas these sources are intimately familiar with their projects, they may
not be fully aware of the owners' finally-realized and recorded costs. In some
cases, costs are truly and completely accounted for, and in others they represent
a near approximation of the final costs. Costs have not been adjusted for
year of construction, nor has any attempt been made to make regional cost
adjustments.
Further, costs are not comparable on any kind of detailed standard costing model.
Hence, it is possible for the cost of one building to include a steam boiler, while
the cost of a comparable building might not include the boiler, if steam is being
supplied from an already existing campus grid. Or, in another case, a building might
include excess boiler capacity to supply steam to another building. Some submittals
include fees or unusual site improvements as part of the construction costs, which
others do not.
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Patient Care Tower Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center?s new Patient Care Tower responds to ambulatory emergencies and serves the critically ill, in addition to standing as the main focal point for the hospital campus. Photo courtesy of TRO/The Ritchie Organization.
Main Entrance The Patient Care Tower main entrance: ambulatory services are grouped on the first three levels and upper floors house inpatient care services. Photo courtesy of TRO/The Ritchie Organization. Notes:
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