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that's where we moved the children to make it
a children's unit." During weekly meetings, the
project team would identify departments on
the floors above and below the affected areas
and settle high-stakes debates about which occupants would move-and when-to make space
for demolition and renovation, guided by how
many beds and bassinets had to be available at a
given time.

P R O J E C T D E TA I L S

Completion date: Expected to open in
February 2018
Owner: Christus Santa Rosa Health
System
Total square feet: 800,000 sq. ft.
(campus); 460,000 sq. ft. (hospital)
Total construction cost: $107 million
Architecture: Stanley Beaman & Sears,
WHR Architects, Overland Partners

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Interior design: Stanley Beaman
& Sears
Contracting: Bartlett Cocke General
Contractors
Engineering: Smith Seckman Reid,
Alpha Structural Engineers
Glaziers: Sharp Glass
Channel glass units: Bendheim Wall
Systems
Carpet/flooring: Mannington
Commercial, Armstrong, Nora
Rubber Flooring, Ceramic Technics
Ceiling/wall systems: Baswaphon
Acoustic Plaster, Armstrong Grille
Wood Ceilings, Dextile, Modular Arts
Fabric/textiles: ArcCom, Designtex,
CF Stinson, Momentum Textiles,
National, Herman Miller, TMC, ISEC
Headwalls/booms: Modular Services
Lighting: CDM Lighting Design
Signage/wayfinding: Stanley
Beaman & Sears
Surfaces: Light Blocks, LG HI-MACS,
DuPont
TOP: Fun, bubble-like
patterns on the floor
direct visitors through
the hallway to staff
workspaces and tie
into the facility's many
allusions to water.
ABOVE: The design team
responded to patients'
and families' requests
for rooms with multiple
seating options by
including recliners,
ottomans, daybeds, and
portable chairs.

FINISHING TOUCHES

Wallcoverings: FilzFelt, National/

SanFoot, Wilsonart
One challenge of the original building was the
Other:
Radius Track (curved studs), Chisel
lack of separate onstage and offstage areas, in3D ("Spirit of the River "fabrication
cluding separate elevators and corridors for
and installation), Presentation Design
staff and patients. In the past, patients being
Group (blue river wall fabrication and
transported from the ED to imaging services
installation)
had to travel through public areas. To resolve
Paint: Sherwin-Williams
this, architects flipped the main entrance of the
hospital with the emergency entrance, doubled
the size of the ED, and added a lobby, effectively demarcating public waiting areas and entrances from back-of-house
zones. That meant preserving an original main corridor running north to
south, but converting it to a staff corridor with access to employee elevators. To the west is a public corridor connecting the new main lobby, public
elevators, and other amenity spaces, including the dining area, chapel, and
gift shop. The ED itself was relocated from the west to the east side of the
building, adjacent to the staff zones, which permitted it to double in size
and further helped separate public areas from staff-only locations.
Beyond adding larger rooms and spaces for family members to take a
break, the interior design team wanted the hospital to have a homelike feel
and evoke the surrounding region, while staying true to the provider's religious heritage. To that end, the team created a design concept called "spirit
of the river" with features that harness the calming, spiritual properties of

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Parents had a long wish list for project designers on what they wanted to see in the renovated
inpatient tower, including adequate sleeping
space for two parents per room, comfortable
seating options near and away from the bed,
larger rooms, and in-room microwaves. But
before the design team could start addressing
patient and family amenities, they had to confront some existing structural challenges in
the patient rooms, including column locations
and narrow, L-shaped floor layouts. Designers
spent some time crunching numbers to figure
out how many rooms could fit on a floor if the
size was increased to meet requests. In the end,
eight different room configurations were created: two each for the NICU, PICU, and typical
inpatient rooms; and one apiece for labor, delivery, and recovery and oncology rooms. "It
was a huge calculation to see how many rooms
we could fit," says Veronique Pryor, principal
and project manager at SBS.
The rooms are about a third larger than
the original ones, increasing from 170 to 240
square feet for a total of 195 licensed beds.
This made furniture selection essential to support the functionality of the room and meet
parents' expectations as well as provide flexible options, says Robin Kirkman, senior interior designer at SBS. "Parents loved the idea
of the built-in daybed, but in some rooms we
couldn't get in as long of a daybed due to those
columns-that's why seating options were so
important," she says. To accommodate those
constraints, her team selected a variety of furniture for the rooms, including daybeds or reclining chairs depending on the room layout,
as well as portable, stackable chairs (stored
outside the patient rooms) to accommodate
large families common to San Antonio's patient population. Knowing parents would not
get the much-desired in-room microwaves,
designers created bright family lounges at the
end of the hallway on each unit, with café-style
tables, chairs, and coffee stations where visitors can enjoy a meal together.
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