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Alder Hey’s Park Place
Alder Hey’s Park Place is a new hospital in Liverpool, England which was built to replace the 100-year-old Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. The new 645,834-square-foot hospital opened in October, 2015 and was built in a 22-acre park within the city.
The facility has 270 beds, a large critical care area, 16 operating theaters, and outpatient services. Every room has a view of the park. The atrium houses the main reception area, a café/restaurant, outpatient arrival and reception, meeting and conference rooms, retail, and a performance space.
The goal was to design the hospital into the park landscape. The “Hill in the Park” theme resulted which included a building profile with exposed surfaces to mimic the characteristic red sandstone of Liverpool and patient wards projecting out like ripples of landscape.
Healthcare Design Magazine has a great article on this new facility. A few of the pictures from the piece are below. To view all of the pictures and read the article, click here.
The five-story atrium houses several elements designed to infuse a sense of fun and child-like wonder into the hospital, including a wooden mobile in the foreground and a conical-shaped structure, called the “Treehouse” in the background, which houses a multi-faith chapel on the bottom level and a teen lounge above. Photo: David Barbour
The ward floors feature a mix of bed options with 75 percent single-bed rooms and 25 percent in multi-bed clusters. Clinicians decide where a patient is treated, but some parents will express a preference for a particular type of room. Photo: David Barbour
The private patient rooms feature fully glazed doors that were designed to improve staff observation of patients, bring daylight into the center of the ward, and help engage families in the care process. After constructing a mock-up of the room, the staff requested adjustable Venetian blinds between the glass panes to address privacy concerns. Photo: David Barbour
Source: http://www.healthcaredesignmagazine.com/article/alder-heys-park-place
