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Located on the Fitzsimmons campus of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, the Nighthorse Campbell Native Health Building contains a variety of outpatient and long-distance medical consultation services.

Certain building types provoke certain emotional responses from people: no more so than in the case of the healthcare center, believe architects Jesús Irisarri Castro and Guadalupe Piñera Manso.

Believing that health centers are usually defined by an overly rigid spatial organization marked by corridors and consulting rooms, architects Jamie Coll and Judith Leclerc set out to develop a new typology.

The D’Amour Center for Cancer Care, an ambulatory care facility in western Massachusetts, offers a comprehensive program of radiation and systemic oncology.

ALTUS Architecture + Design reinvents the suburban dental office in Minnesota, integrating a luminous interior with a field of prairie grass.

The Communicare Chemical Dependency Unit, known as Haven House, is a 48-bed residential facility for the treatment of drug and alcohol dependency serving seven counties in northern Mississippi.

Seton Medical Center took the need to expand its surgery area as an opportunity to upgrade the rather heavy, dour visage of its 1970s vintage brick facility.

The Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital creates a pivotal presence in the main public arrival zone at the Ohio State University Medical Center.

Josef Hoffmann’s Pruckersdorf Sanatorium of 1904 was a functional and aesthetic masterpiece that might have set a precedent for hospitals in Austria—but didn’t.

As it is in the civilian world, health care in the military is a growing enterprise that requires facility expansion to keep pace with demand.