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Beatrice Community Hospital and Health Center
Beatrice Community Hospital and Health Center
Beatrice, NE, United States
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Other Projects by Altus Architectural Studios, Inc.
Beatrice Community Hospital and Health Center
Beatrice, NE, United States
YEAR
2012
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
Altus was selected to develop a much-needed replacement facility on a Greenfield site. The existing hospital was in a building that was costly to maintain and didn’t fit the needs of the community. The hospital’s overall look and feel was also lacking with deficiencies in patient bathrooms, public and private space, storage, area work-flows, wayfinding, and general location. This resulted in a deteriorating hospital brand and presented challenges in keeping physicians.
To solve these issues, the hospital purchased a 46-acre site in north Beatrice adjacent to the main highway. Altus began by holding a week long design charrette with each of the user-group stakeholders in the project. A programmatic wish list was developed and refined into a final functional program that had complete buy-in from the hospital management and staff. During this time, concept site and building plans were developed and refined. These concept plans became the basis for the facility that was ultimately constructed.
Site visits to other facilities were conducted and several options were discussed with a select group of stakeholders. Utilizing evidence-based design techniques, a plan was developed that added efficiencies by providing public and private circulation, creating departmental adjacencies and family areas. The 144,000-square-foot plan also took into account future growth and expansion. The new full service hospital contains a 25,000-square-foot “B” occupancy medical office building which was fully leased before the building began.
LEED® certification was not a requirement of the new facility, but sustainable designed remained an important goal within the project. The mechanical and electrical systems were designed to comply with ENERGY STAR® criteria. The design team also applied features of the Green Guide for Healthcare, which is a voluntary, self-certifying system modeled with permission after the LEED rating system.
Construction on the project was completed in February of 2012 at a cost of only $215 per square foot. The final design provides a healing state-of-the-art hospital and medical office building that will serve the community now and into the future. Today, the Beatrice Hospital continues to see a rise in births, outpatient procedures and diagnostic testing and the performance is exceeding the expectations of everyone involved in the project.
To solve these issues, the hospital purchased a 46-acre site in north Beatrice adjacent to the main highway. Altus began by holding a week long design charrette with each of the user-group stakeholders in the project. A programmatic wish list was developed and refined into a final functional program that had complete buy-in from the hospital management and staff. During this time, concept site and building plans were developed and refined. These concept plans became the basis for the facility that was ultimately constructed.
Site visits to other facilities were conducted and several options were discussed with a select group of stakeholders. Utilizing evidence-based design techniques, a plan was developed that added efficiencies by providing public and private circulation, creating departmental adjacencies and family areas. The 144,000-square-foot plan also took into account future growth and expansion. The new full service hospital contains a 25,000-square-foot “B” occupancy medical office building which was fully leased before the building began.
LEED® certification was not a requirement of the new facility, but sustainable designed remained an important goal within the project. The mechanical and electrical systems were designed to comply with ENERGY STAR® criteria. The design team also applied features of the Green Guide for Healthcare, which is a voluntary, self-certifying system modeled with permission after the LEED rating system.
Construction on the project was completed in February of 2012 at a cost of only $215 per square foot. The final design provides a healing state-of-the-art hospital and medical office building that will serve the community now and into the future. Today, the Beatrice Hospital continues to see a rise in births, outpatient procedures and diagnostic testing and the performance is exceeding the expectations of everyone involved in the project.
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