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An adaptive re-use project transformed Central Hospital into the Sherbourne Health Centre, designed to provide care for the homeless, newcomers to Canada, and the lesbian, bisexual, gay, transsexual, and transgender community.

The new, 1.2 million square-foot, eight-story Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, incorporating the Mattel Children's Hospital and the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, is a state-of-the-art facility with a humanizing and uplifting environment.

The Rabin Medical Center’s 90,000-square-foot Davidoff Comprehensive Cancer Center combines a serene environment, patient-centered care, and operational efficiency in a building designed to fit into Israel’s largest medical campus.

Despite their amazing advances, most hospitals today still fail to make patients feel relaxed, or at times even human.

Medtronic, maker of implantable cardioverter defibrillators, pacemakers, and monitoring equipment for cardiac rhythm disorders, has a new 1.2 million-square-foot campus, Phase 1 of a 1.5 million-square-foot project that will eventually house 6,000 Medtronic employees.

Driven by the client’s desire to achieve LEED platinum-level certification—unprecedented for an inpatient hospital—the design for Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas began with a distinct vision and commitment to significantly reduce the negative impact of the building on its occupants and the environment.

The focal point of Community Hospital North’s recent expansion is a new six-story tower that houses one of the largest and most advanced women’s and children’s hospitals in the country.

Light-filled contemporary architecture and leading-edge medical care are not usually associated with rural health care facilities.

The completion of Banner Gateway Medical Center last September provided the growing community of Gilbert, Arizona, with what the NBBJ design team calls the “next-generation hospital.”