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With a vision to create a national and global destination for orthopedic and musculoskeletal care, Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center in Akron, Ohio, pulled design inspiration from hospitality environments to create a concierge-like patient experience. The effort earned the 167,500-square-foot project Best of Competition in the 2022 IIDA Healthcare Design Awards program. “We wanted to design a facility that feels less like a hospital, with design elements that truly differentiate Crystal Clinic from other hospital systems,” says Daniel J. Ferry, president and CEO at Crystal Clinic. Opened in November 2021, Crystal Clinic partnered with HGA (Milwaukee) to bring this vision to life by embracing the contemporary design of an upscale hotel for the three-story facility. It houses 12 operating rooms; 60 private patient rooms; and a QuickCare facility to provide immediate, specialized walk-in urgent care for sports and orthopedic injuries. Interior spaces are designed to be calming with

Construction firm Barton Malow Builders (Southfield, Mich.), a division of the Barton Malow Enterprise, has promoted Larry Arndt to vice president of the firm’s South region. Additionally, Dennis Odisho has been named senior business strategy manager for the firm’s Tampa, Fla., office. Arndt, who joined the firm in 2018, will be located in the firm’s Tampa and Orlando, Fla., offices. He has more than 30 years of experience and will report to chief operating officer Todd Ketola. Odisho will lead work acquisition and market development in the Tampa Bay area. He brings nearly 25 years of project management experience to the firm, including in healthcare. The post Barton Malow Builders Expands Healthcare Team first appeared on HCD Magazine .

Cone Health MedCenter Greensboro At Drawbridge Parkway Owner Cone Health (Greensboro, N.C.), a nonprofit healthcare delivery system, set out to connect and integrate healthcare and wellbeing services all in one location with the creation of the MedCenter Greensboro at Drawbridge Parkway northwest Greensboro, N.C. Opened in December 2021, the 200,000-square-foot clinic and freestanding emergency center introduces wellness components throughout this project by establishing community spaces to engage and teach healthy habits. Spaces are thoughtfully designed to support teaching healthy eating and cooking, exercising, and mindful movements, in addition to the services traditionally offered in a clinic and freestanding emergency center. The facility includes primary care, behavioral health, counseling, a cancer center, women’s healthcare, emergency care, heart and vascular care, imaging, orthopedics outpatient rehabilitation, sports medicine, and plastic surgery services. A café, reta

VHC Health (Arlington, Va.) is working with Arlington, Va., County to open a rehabilitation and behavioral health wellness facility in Arlington. Situated on 5.8 acres, the project will house behavioral wellness services, including a 24-bed adult unit, a 24-bed adolescent unit, and a 24-bed recovery and wellness unit. The facility will offer five outpatient programs, including services for recovery and wellness and behavioral health. As part of the project, VHC Health is also expanding its inpatient rehabilitation services with 20 rehabilitation beds (bringing VHC Health’s total bed count to 40), as well as treatment for brain and spinal cord injuries, stroke, neurological and other conditions. The project is expected to break ground in late 2023 or early 2024 and construction is slated to be completed by the end of 2025 The post VHC Health Plans Rehabilitation and Behavioral Wellness Facility first appeared on HCD Magazine .

Mental health provider Odyssey Behavioral Healthcare (Brentwood, Tenn.) is opening a Lifeskills South Florida mental health and addictions treatment facility in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Odyssey acquired Lifeskills, which provides services to adults ages 18 and over, in 2015. The new facility will offer stabilization, evaluation, detoxification, and Level 1 residential treatment services for those with chronic and acute mental health, substance use, and complex co-occurring disorders. The Lifeskills South Florida campus is expected to open in 2023. The post Odyssey Behavioral Healthcare Plans New Mental Health And Addictions Treatment Facility first appeared on HCD Magazine .

I shared in my December editor’s note that my family recently moved to a new house. As we’ve worked to settle in and figure out what pieces of our existing furniture should go where, I’ve been making a few purchases, too. Inevitably, supply chain challenges have resulted in a several-months-long wait for our dining table—it exists, but it needs a missing piece before it can ship. While my immediate instinct might be to moan a little, I always stop myself, thanks to a conversation that took place at the Healthcare Design Conference + Expo in October 2022. Each year, we gather our Exhibitor Advisory Board, a group representing some of our major exhibitors in the expo, for a meeting on the last day of the show. They review with us in show management how they thought it went, where we can improve, and so on. As the conversation expanded around issues the group is facing more generally, supply chain inevitably came up there, too. They shared the reality of delays as they wait for ship

National architecture firm Shepley Bulfinch (Boston) has hired Trent Williams as principal and promoted Natalie Thurman to principal. Both will work at the firm’s Houston studio. Williams joins the firm from Texas Medical Center in Houston where he most recently served as director of capital projects and facilities. Thurman has been with Shepley Bulfinch since 2019. The post Shepley Bulfinch Expands Staff At Houston Office first appeared on HCD Magazine .