Methodist West Houston Hospital
Houston, Texas
Located on a beautifully landscaped 42-acre campus on Interstate 10 near Barker-Cypress, the new Methodist West Houston Hospital provides the Methodist Hospital System with a strong, visible presence in the West Houston-Katy corridor and an opportunity to meet the healthcare needs of this rapidly growing community. The campus initially includes a six-story, 474,000-square-foot hospital, a six-story, 162,000-square-foot medical office building, a 13,000-square-foot central utility plant, and multiple water features 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 design of the hospital employs the Methodist Hospital System H-shaped template with an atrium, but the designers made alterations to optimize views out from the front of the hospital to the landscaped gardens and the wooded areas surrounding the water feature. The six-story atrium, which is at an angle to the freeway, presents a more dynamic face to traffic traveling both east and west on I-10. This atrium serves not only as a powerful identifying element for the hospital, providing natural light to patient rooms and staff areas, but also as an exceptional wayfinding tool for people entering the building.
Patient rooms have been designed to promote patient safety, comfort and healing. The rooms have ample family areas, along with subtle lighting and warm materials. 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 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 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.
Designed and constructed concurrently, Methodist West Houston Hospital and the adjacent Texas Children's West Campus serve as anchors for the new medical complex known as the "Texas Medical Center – West Campus." Combined, the two PageSoutherlandPage-designed facilities will ultimately provide 1.2 million square feet of new medical space for this large and growing community.
PageSoutherlandPage provided master planning, medical planning, programming, architecture, MEP engineering and interior design for the project.
Awards: Houston Business Journal Landmark Awards; ENR Texas and Louisiana Best Projects. Healthcare Award of Merit