Houston, TX (9 December 2010) – Methodist West Houston Hospital, one of two adjacent hospitals in west Houston designed by PageSoutherlandPage, celebrated its official opening on December 9, 2010.
Designed and constructed concurrently, the new Methodist healthcare complex and the new Texas Children’s West Campus serve as anchor institutions for the medical complex known as the “Texas Medical Center — West." Located on a beautifully landscaped 42-acre campus on Interstate 10 near Barker-Cypress, the new hospital provides the Methodist Hospital System with a strong, visible presence in the West Houston-Katy corridor. The Methodist campus initially includes a 474,000-square-foot hospital, a 162,000-square-foot medical office building, a 13,000-square-foot central utility plant, ponds with water features and multiple courtyards and gardens.
Designed for flexibility and planned to accommodate future expansions, the new hospital reflects Methodist’s “Patient Experience” philosophy, combining a hospitality-like environment with the latest medical technologies. Evidence-based design concepts, patient safety principles and energy efficient strategies were implemented throughout the hospital to promote healing and ensure patient and staff comfort and well-being.
The campus was designed to provide easy access, whether approaching from the highway or side streets, and whether entering the hospital or medical office building. As the patient or visitor passes through the main hospital entrance into the light-filled atrium, the very efficient and intuitive layout of the hospital is immediately apparent. The atrium offers access to most departments and services, along with first floor amenities such as an upscale dining facility, a chapel and conference center. Conveniences such as a business center and coffee bar are located on each level. The third level serves as a secondary “main floor,” providing long-term convenient access to other campus buildings via a conditioned pedestrian sky bridge.
State-of-the-art patient rooms have been designed to promote patient safety, comfort and healing. The rooms have ample family areas, along with subtle lighting, warm materials and photographs of nature. Each room provides a quiet, soothing atmosphere, and individual thermostats enable the patient to control his or her environment. Bathrooms have been placed behind the headwall, shortening the distance that patients travel from bed to toilet – which enhances their safety – and allowing more daylight and exterior views in the patient room. The efficient floor plans place caregivers in close proximity to the patient, providing a sense of comfort to the patient and alleviating staff stress.
The acute-care hospital, which was constructed by Austin Commercial, is opening with 100 beds and has available space to accommodate 193 beds. At the completion of that phase, the hospital will feature dedicated imaging centers, 15 operating rooms (of which one is a hybrid) to perform open heart and other major surgeries, including robotic and orthopedic, a 26-bed birthing center, 14 NICU /continuing care beds, a cancer treatment center with two linear accelerators, a breast imaging center and a 28-station emergency center.
PageSoutherlandPage provided master planning, programming, medical planning, architectural design and production, interior design, MEP engineering and construction contract administration for all work at the Methodist Campus -- as well as providing the same level of involvement (with the exception of MEP engineering) for work at the adjacent Texas Children’s West Campus.
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