Guerin Kids’s pediatric inpatient unit is situated inside Cedars-Sinai Medical Heart in Los Angeles. The 26-bed unit advances a imaginative and prescient for youngsters’s healthcare the place every affected person’s holistic expertise is deemed an important facet of their care and therapeutic outcomes.
The 23,000-square-foot unit—designed by HGA (Los Angeles) together with Cedars-Sinai’s planning, design and development groups—delivers care throughout pediatric specialties. These embody neonatology, maternal-fetal medication, gastroenterology, cardiac providers, orthopedics, neurology, pediatric surgical procedure, and kidney transplants.
Separate zones are created for adolescent and pediatric affected person populations. The unit additionally includes a wide range of areas that help scientific outcomes and the general well-being of its sufferers and their family members.
For instance, affected person rooms are designated as “secure zones,” which means no therapy or procedures happen within the rooms themselves.
All affected person rooms embody a full pullout mattress in addition to a reclining straightforward chair that lies flat so two caregivers can comfortably keep in a single day. Supportive frequent space facilities, comparable to a household lounge full with a kitchenette and showers, deliver a way of house to the medical surroundings.
Design selections have been guided by how youngsters expertise the world round them, resulting in a “select their very own journey” design schema. This permits sufferers to work together within the unit’s areas via expertise, artwork, media, and each hands-on and digital play.
Interactivity screens all through the unit present choices from watching films and taking part in video video games to packages for creating paintings and taking part in with digital stickers.
Hallway partitions combine expertise that may show the digital paintings created by sufferers {and professional} artists alike. Moreover, these partitions can host character animations. These animations sense motion and “stroll” alongside sufferers down the hallway to place them comfy all through their journey.
The design consists of refined design components that enchantment to a large age vary of pediatric sufferers. Wooden paneling in lighter tones may be discovered alongside corridors in addition to at headwalls and footwalls, offering an elevated end that’s paying homage to a residential surroundings. The playroom and household reception space are additionally coated on this end, however are juxtaposed with vivid colours within the field window seats with matching materials.
Coloration and playfulness are balanced with a timeless magnificence to make sure the unit doesn’t really feel childlike, but nonetheless engages younger sufferers.
Challenge particulars for Cedars-Sinai Guerin Kids’s:
Location: Los Angeles
Completion date: August 2022
Proprietor: Cedars-Sinai Medical Heart
Whole constructing space: 23,000 sq. ft.
Whole development price: Undisclosed
Value/sq. Ft.: Undisclosed
Structure agency: HGA
Inside design: HGA
Basic contractor: Layton Development
Engineering: Affiliated Engineers Inc. (MEP); Degenkolb Engineers (structural)
Builder: Layton Development