This project addressed the planned interior renovation located on the lower level, 2nd, 3rd & 6th floors within the AB Building to accommodate current and anticipated clinical growth, and realignment of vacated space with the 2017 completion of the Livingston Ambulatory Center.  With flux among departments, including Behavioral Health, and the implementation of centralized registration, the goal was to look at a universal model that would provide maximum flexibility and expandability to respond to the ever changing medical needs, modes of treatment, and workload.

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Within the parameters of maintaining elevator cores, public toilet rooms, and egress stairways, we explored the notion of lining the perimeter of the floor with exam rooms and intermittent procedure rooms, thereby promoting staff and space efficiencies.  With no clear boundary between departments, the quantity of exam rooms used per department have the potential to readily change at any given time.  Centrally locating support spaces minimizes travel distances for staff while allowing sharing among adjacent departments.  Likewise, centralizing waiting minimizes travel distances for patients.