The Wisconsin Heart Hospital, Wauwatosa, WI: designed to minimize stress for its patients, provide state-of-the-art treatment, and maximize staffing efficiencies, the 60-bed Wisconsin Heart Hospital was designed and built within an ambitious, 20-month timeframe on a narrow, sloping site adjacent to a residential neighborhood.(PROJECT INNOVATIONS)

Buildings,  October, 2006  

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The facility is more "Ritz-Carlton" than "General Hospital," with its design taking a definitive slant toward a hospitality feel over a traditional healthcare standard.

Special Design Feature

Approximately 80 percent of the facility's patients visit on an outpatient basis. Consequently, the building design allows them to access testing and treatment areas easily without navigating all the way through the facility. The outpatient-based interventional suite is located on the first level, close to the main, emergency, and chest-pain entries, as well as ...

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