Our healthcare architects understand the business of healthcare and are cognizant of the practical as well as aesthetic issues that must be mediated in health care facility design and planning. We have designed medical facilities and ambulatory clinics that serve as revenue centers, upgraded outmoded facilities without interrupting operations, and planned campuses that move patients efficiently through a system of care. As integrated networks, wellness, education, and new concepts became the norm, we grasped the economic ramifications and impact of a full spectrum of physical responses, from capital investment to operating expenses. Our healthcare architecture and planning begin with an understanding of the provider's mission and the vision of a flexible, healing environment that embraces change. ‹ less
Banner Health System, Banner Baywood Heart Hospital
The $13 million expansion and renovation of Cardio-Vascular ICU and Telemetry nursing units for Banner Baywood Heart Hospital in Mesa, Arizona was designed with integrated engineering and a "real-time" design process. The project includes: the fit-out of 32,000 sf of shell space on the hospital's 5th floor for Cardio-Vascular ICU rooms and Telemetry and remodeling of existing Telemetry unit on the 4th floor.
Banner Health System, Banner Thunderbird Medical Center
Westlake Reed Leskosky programmed and master planned this family-focused campus expansion and renovation.The initial $49.5 million phase of the project was completed in 2001 and includes 110,000 SF of new space and 44,000 SF of remodeled space for patient care, laboratory and support space. A highly successful Women's and Infants Center followed, and additional expansions for cardiology and other departments will increase the medical center's capacity to 292 beds, making...
Banner Health System, Baywood Medical Center
Westlake Reed Leskosky designed a new 7-story bedtower addition, a new wing to house the imaging department, several new support buildings including a 640-space parking garage, and extensively remodeled the existing bedtower. The overriding principle behind the work was to create a user-friendly environment of healing hospitality. Hospital functions continued uninterrupted during construction with minimal disruptions to service delivery. Key issues included designing within a tight, urban campus with zoning...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Euclid Hospital Emergency Department
In 2007, Westlake Reed Leskosky completed a $4.8 million expansion of the Emergency Department for this 371-bed hospital. The expanded Emergency Department provides 13 new exam rooms, a new two-bay trauma room, decontamination room, and 7 renovated exam spaces. Organized with the exam rooms surrounding a central staff work core, the design allows surveillance of all rooms, the ability to allocate space to specialized functions, and expedites the time patients...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Heart Hospital
As a major innovator in the field of cardiovascular care, the client required a dramatic increase in the facilities available for both surgical procedures and post-operative care, specifically intensive care units. The new structure was planned in the form of an addition complementary to the existing structure and was designed with an emphasis on patient/visitor comforts and state-of-the-art cardiovascular care. Each surgery is outfitted with a blood conditioning system to...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Hillcrest Hospital Major Campus Expansion
Hillcrest Hospital serves a four county region in Northeastern Ohio-a population requiring broader healthcare services than when the hospital was built in 1968. It is one of only six hospitals in the US to be ranked ten times among the nation's Top 100 Hospitals and a Top 100 Hospital for its cardiovascular services by Thomson Healthcare. Continuing a two-decade consultancy relationship with Hillcrest Hospital that has encompassed more...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Hillcrest Hospital West Tower
In the context of a $150M master planned capital project, the firm was retained to analyze three options for developing expansion of medical surgical beds with a $40M budget and an accelerated construction process. The resultant West Wing is comprised of two floors of vertical expansion over two floors of renovated space for services including surgery, oncology, ICU and PACU. An addition to the first floor houses an enlarged Radiation...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Lakewood Hospital Master Plan
Lakewood Hospital is a 400-bed acute care, community hospital serving more than 130,000 patients in several buildings ranging in age from 1912 to 2002. Westlake Reed Leskosky was retained in 2006 to perform a Master Plan Feasibility Study in order to evaluate the existing facility and determine an action plan for improvements. The Study addressed several key project initiatives, including: facilitating or strengthening programs related to specialty services lines; converting...
Saint Vincent Health Center, Saint Vincent Health Center
This major renovation and expansion project was initiated by the client's desire to solve several fundamental problems: simplification of the unplanned circulation system, replacement of obsolete critical care and OB/GYN units with designs responsive to a newly adopted patient-focused care approach, replacement of laboratory and diagnostic cardiology suites, decentralized nurse stations to bring staff closer to patients, development and relocation of a new entry, and creation of a strong public...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Westlake Reed Leskosky engaged in a facilities assessment for the Sheikh Khalifa Medical Center site in 2007. The scope include the assessment of forty-one (41) buildings totaling over 1,300,000 sf. Assessment included architectural, medical, mechanical, electrical, structural and all other systems on the 100 acre main campus site.
In addition to this, Westlake Reed Leskosky evaluated sixteen (16) clinic buildings throughout Abu Dhabi totaling over 550,000 sf. The...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, South Pointe Hospital
With surgery as the cornerstone, the 100,000 square foot expansion creates a distinctive and highly visible, new entry to the campus; a technologically advanced surgery center and intensive care unit with an innovative, 4-bed decentralized nursing module; and a comprehensive medical education center. The project includes conference facilities and a 150-seat auditorium funded by a $6 million grant from The Brentwood Foundation for medical education and community use. Serving the...
Department of Veterans Affairs, Surgery Center
Westlake Reed Leskosky was commissioned by the Department of Veteran Affairs to design a 2-story addition to the existing 6-story hospital facility. The building houses surgery on the ground floor and ICU/recovery suite on the second floor, as well as a relocated entry. The existing building was distinctly institutional in nature, but had the advantage of a substantial setback from the street, a lightly rolling terrain an a nature stand...
Salem Community Hospital, Surgery Center Expansion
This new 32,000 sf, two-story surgery center includes a suite of six operating rooms arranged around a sterile core with potential for future expansion to eight ORs. The design provides natural light, logical circulation separating staff, public and patient traffic, and maximizes adaptability/flexibility. Adjacent inpatient and ambulatory areas are each other's overflow space and feature universal bays to handle pre- and post-operative patients. Intended to blend with...
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Twinsburg Family Health and Surgery Center
Westlake Reed Leskosky master planned and designed the multi-phase development of an award winning new 80-acre suburban medical campus. The first two phases encompass a 160,000 sf Family Health Center and 304,000 sf complex comprised of an Emergency Department, Ambulatory Surgery Center and 140-bed hospital. A third phase is planned for an additional bed tower with outparcels for specific areas of care. The design challenge involved issues of...













































































































