Despite their amazing advances, most hospitals today still fail to make patients feel relaxed, or at times even human.

Medtronic, maker of implantable cardioverter defibrillators, pacemakers, and monitoring equipment for cardiac rhythm disorders, has a new 1.2 million-square-foot campus, Phase 1 of a 1.5 million-square-foot project that will eventually house 6,000 Medtronic employees.

Driven by the client’s desire to achieve LEED platinum-level certification—unprecedented for an inpatient hospital—the design for Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas began with a distinct vision and commitment to significantly reduce the negative impact of the building on its occupants and the environment.

The focal point of Community Hospital North’s recent expansion is a new six-story tower that houses one of the largest and most advanced women’s and children’s hospitals in the country.

Light-filled contemporary architecture and leading-edge medical care are not usually associated with rural health care facilities.

The completion of Banner Gateway Medical Center last September provided the growing community of Gilbert, Arizona, with what the NBBJ design team calls the “next-generation hospital.”

The new Trauma and Critical Care Building forms the centerpiece of the Community Regional Medical Center’s 10-year redevelopment initiative, master planned by RTKL.

In planning its new Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center, the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer care center in the region, UCSD sought a facility that would bring researchers, clinicians, prevention specialists, and educators under one roof in a “bench-to-bedside” approach to conquering cancer.

Lehigh Valley Hospital – Muhlenberg engaged architect Venturi Scott Brown and Associates, in collaboration with architect FreemanWhite, to renovate an existing 100,000-square-foot building and create a new 265,000-square-feet tower.