Health-care facilities typically use isolation as a strategy for dealing with infection control, creating buildings that work as sets of departments closed off from one another.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s dense web of mostly older buildings at its 20-acre campus in Upper Manhattan is not unusual for medical complexes constructed over many decades.

In designing St. Anthony, a privately funded hospital in the wooded area outside Seattle, the architects at Zimmer Gunsul Frasca (ZGF) asked themselves, “What would you want to see in a five-star hotel?” says ZGF interior designer, Anita Rossen.

When The Children’s Hospital set out to design and build its new 1.44 million-square-foot facility, the mission was straightforward: to create a family-centered care center where children could heal, and to include the latest advances in medical-facility design.

The design of the E.W. and Mary Firstenburg Tower supports Southwest Washington Medical Center’s 150-year-old mission of service to its patients, their families, the facility’s staff, and the surrounding community.

An adaptive re-use project transformed Central Hospital into the Sherbourne Health Centre, designed to provide care for the homeless, newcomers to Canada, and the lesbian, bisexual, gay, transsexual, and transgender community.

The new, 1.2 million square-foot, eight-story Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, incorporating the Mattel Children's Hospital and the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, is a state-of-the-art facility with a humanizing and uplifting environment.