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Northwestern Memorial Hospital Center for Partnership Medicine
Award of Merit: Health Care
The Northwestern Memorial Hospital Center for Partnership
Medicine in Chicago responds to a growing focus on preventive
health care solutions.
Patients, or "members" typically feeling healthy,
are able to take a streamlined approach to maintaining their
health by spending a day at the center, where they have access
to a full range of NMH's doctors and specialists. At the end
of the day, the member has undergone a comprehensive physical
and leaves with a dossier of test results and personalized
preventive health strategies.
Designed for Patient-Members
The center comprises a reception area, six member suites,
three examination rooms, laboratory, exercise room, three physician
offices, conference room, six work stations and break room.
The layout was designed with an emphasis on the flow, privacy
and comfort.
The entrance is framed in mahogany paneling and layered glass,
and the member enters into a lobby and is immediately escorted
to a private suite. The main corridor is 5 ft., and glass sculpture,
lighting and art were added to give it a gallery feel.
In the private suites, there are showers, toilets and changing
rooms for members and are designed to be less psychologically
stressful than traditional waiting rooms. Elements include oversized,
comfortable furniture, art, lamp lighting and subdued colors.
Only steps away are the member lounge with kitchen. It provides
the opportunity for social interaction, but members may choose
to eat in their private suites. The kitchen offers an array
of freshly prepared entrees and espresso bar.
Unlike a traditional health care setting, where patients might
have to travel to several different hospital departments on
different floors to undergo a battery of tests, the center provides
members with the convenience of staying in one place, while
a physician and specialists come to them.
Physicians are able to move among rooms with efficiency in part
because the facility has a wireless computer network. Physicians
can hook their computer into the flat-screen monitor in each
suite to present information to members.
Jury Comments: "It has higher-end finishes. The layout
is appropriate for the clientele the facility caters to. It
doesn't look like a health-care facility."
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