Innovative hospital buildings don’t necessarily appear to be so from the outside. Often, it’s the fine-tuning of the internal organization that can appreciably improve health care. The new oak-clad patient building at Haraldsplass hospital is nestled nicely into the foot of the heavily wooded Ulriken Mountain, the highest of the celebrated seven mountains that surround the city center of Bergen, Norway’s second-largest city. The gently angled outward-facing facade follows the course of the Møllendalselven River beneath it.