Healthcare Design - May 2022 - 30

LEFT: Wood louvers,
found throughout the
new patient tower at the
Washington Township
site, are used to create
quiet places of respite.
ABOVE: Sub-waiting areas
at Jefferson Cherry Hill
Hospital are housed at the
entrance to each patient
unit to provide visitors
with respite from the more
clinical waiting spaces.
proximity of clinical support spaces (staff documentation stations, clean
supply, medication preparation) to patient rooms to maximize efficiency.
" New units with 100 percent private rooms are much bigger, so point of
care becomes important to minimize nurses walking extensive distances, "
Brower says. With patients able to control everything from temperature to
lighting to window shades through remotes, the 330-square-foot rooms (including
patient bathroom) also were designed to maximize the window wall
and light/visibility by nesting bathrooms between rooms. " That amenity is
probably one of the nicest things we did in terms of planning, " he says.
Each floor of the towers includes waiting rooms and private family consult
areas along with private staff respite spaces and staff lounges placed along
the exterior walls. " From a staff perspective, there are many more amenities
to support them, " Jefferson Health's Sweeney says. Along with moving
staff respite out of the core, the new tower design also improves clinical
workspaces through technology that allows for simplified, coordinated care
among team members and ties back to patient rooms equipped with large
LCD screens that interface with electronic health records.
INTERIOR IDENTITIES
Showcased through the selection of materials, furnishings, and other key
design elements like specialty lighting and applied graphics, the interior
design throughout both patient towers was designed to give each campus
its own look and feel while still establishing a recognizable brand identity,
says Tamra Green, associate principal at CallisonRTKL.
In the patient care and respite spaces, which are nearly identical in
terms of materials palette, furnishings, and room layout, wood and warm
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tones are accented by more subtle colors
used in applied wall graphics in the corridors
of the patient floors and within the patient care
spaces themselves, Green says. " Each private
patient room has a nature-themed graphic
placed at the footwall to support the use of biophilic
principles throughout, " she says.
Meanwhile, in public spaces, while both campuses
incorporate large-format abstracted nature
graphics as artwork, the Cherry Hill site
uses vibrant accent colors (red in the atrium cafeteria)
while the Washington Township campus
incorporates more natural materials like stone
and wood-each a nod to community feedback
heard in the design process.
CONTINUED GROWTH
Jefferson Health continues to move forward in
its growth of the New Jersey campuses. With a
ribbon cutting anticipated for summer 2023, a
new $35 million cancer center is currently under
construction at the Cherry Hill campus. To
support the growth at the Washington Township
campus, a new ambulatory care building is
being constructed in the same township. " These
plans are beyond what was contemplated in the
original master plan, " says Sweeney, noting that
Jefferson Health has since evolved to become
the largest provider of services in its region over
the past five years. The vision established at the
Cherry Hill and Washington Township campuses
has set the bar for all new and updated facilities
moving forward, as well. " These two projects
are the basis of design for Jefferson Health's facility
standards here on out, " Brower says. 
Joann Plockova is a freelance writer based between
Jupiter, Fla., and Prague, Czech Republic. She can be
reached at JOANN.PLOCKOVA@GMAIL.COM.
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