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Renovation and Expansion
When Crittenton Hospital moved from Detroit to the outlying suburb of Rochester in the 1960s, the new building was a monument to the institutional style of traditional health care facilities. The shape was a set of grim, brown blocks. Windows were small. Lobbies and waiting rooms were cramped. And spaces for patient care simply weren’t configured for the revolutionary improvements in medicine that occurred over the forty years that followed. By 2000, a new look and a new layout had become essential. Kahn’s 316,000-square-foot renovation transformed Crittenton into a hospital whose physical facilities matched—and enhanced—the high quality of its service to patients and the surrounding community. Now, visitors and patients arriving at Crittenton are greeted by a three-story, clear-glass curtain wall offering full views of the new atrium within. Inside, natural light suffuses the lobby, which leads to such amenities as a coffee shop and gift shop as well as spacious rooms for community events, including an education center and a 108-seat auditorium. more...
The interior’s old concrete-and-masonry has given way to warm colors and natural materials such as sandstone and wood, eliciting a soothing and sophisticated character. Wayfinding is clearly established with signs leading directly to the radiology and laboratory suites, located close to the lobby to make them easily accessible for visiting out-patients. Farther along the new central corridor, visitors find clearly identified suites for in-patient and out-patient surgery as well as a new Women & Children’s Center. Where emergency patients once found tight quarters with beds separated only by curtains, there is now an entirely new emergency department more than double the size of the old space, offering plenty of room for greater privacy and housing a broader range of service offerings, from a chest pain center to adult and pediatric urgent care clinics.
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