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WAN Awards Healthcare Winner: St. Charles Bend Cancer Center

Posted by Lindsey Rowles on Jul 21, 2015 in In the Media

WorldArchitectureNews.com recently held their 2015 Architecture Awards. The St. Charles Bend Cancer Center in Bend, Oregon won the Healthcare division. Below is the article and a few pictures from their website. To read it in its entirety and view all of the pictures, click here.

Designed as a user-centric and regionally-focused facility, the new St. Charles Bend Cancer Center is a true testament to patient-centred design. It manifests the completion of a long-cherished vision to consolidate key radiation and oncology services in one location and an opportunity to design a facility, through Lean tools and methods, that enhance caregiver productivity and increases patient satisfaction. The building’s design also draws upon Central Oregon’s inspiring landscape of dessert and mountain vistas, which has also lured some of the nation’s best oncology specialists, making Bend an oasis of hope and health. The design goal was to create a relaxing and peaceful healing environment and to bring a spa-like space to the clinical setting. The designers used a soothing colour palette, warm wood tones and carefully selected artwork and photography from local artist that depict the natural scenery of bend and its beautiful surrounding landscape. Open, bright spaces, sweeping views and a meticulously programmed interior combine to create a world-class cancer center and a true place of healing for the body and soul. An outdoor desk off the infusion room cantilevers over the healing garden, giving staff and patients a sunny porch on which to relax. When weather permits, patients also have the option of receiving treatment in an outdoor infusion garden where moods can be elevated by sunshine, mountain air, whimsical sculpture and the distant mountain views.