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PROJECT DETAILS

with planners to create an architectural hierarchy of forms to aid with the
wayfinding, says Kathryn Dunn, principal and interiors project manager
at SmithGroup. For example, wood walls line major public thoroughfares
to guide visitors through the public areas. Graphic "portal" elements serve
as beacons along these circulation pathways and indicate arrival at individual units, with each floor drawing from a different nature-inspired theme.
The system uses an earth theme on the lower floors and progresses through
themes of flora, water, light, and air on subsequent floors. "The portals are
identified by a color that reinforces the theme of that floor," Dunn says, such
as a "flora" theme for the third and fourth floors that's represented by cues of
greenery, leaves, and woods.
Circulation is further aided with elevators designated for specific frontor back-of-house tasks, with 10 elevators for supplies and staff, five for patients, and 10 for the public. "The public are never mixing with our patients
on stretchers or beds or mixing with supplies and food or whatever else we're
moving through the building," says Jim Benney, senior project manager at
Sutter Health. "It adds to the patient experience and expedites movement of
patients so there's no delays."
WINNING RESULTS

After more than a decade in the making, CPMC Van Ness opened ahead of
schedule and under budget-results the project team attributes to Sutter
Health's decision to use IPD. "Healthcare projects of this size, they're complex and they take a long time to execute," Chung says. "Having all the partners
there that are envisioning and designing and programming, as well as the people who are going to be responsible for executing them, all in the same place-it
was great to know we had trusted partners who bought into what the vision and
intent was from the beginning."
It's a vision and process that Sutter Health has also been committed to sharing with the industry at large through tours as well as conference presentations throughout the life of the project and as the organization settles into its
new home. "I'm proud of the state-of-the-art facility that's going to meet our
community's needs for years to come," Benney says. "It's a win for all when patients' anxiety is decreased because of the new, comfortable environment." 
Anne DiNardo is executive editor of Healthcare Design. She can be reached at A N N E .
DINARDO@EMERALDEXPO.COM.

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©TIM GRIFFTH

A passage under the
building provides
non-emergency
patient drop-off and
entrance to the parking garage below.
An illuminated linear
sculpture by Tim
Logue (left) separates
patient drop-off from
the garage entry.

Project name: California Pacific
Medical Center Van Ness
campus hospital
Project completion date:
March 2019
Owner: Sutter Health
Total building area: 1 million
sq. ft.
Total project cost: $1.9 billion
Cost/sq. ft.: N/A
Architecture: SmithGroup
Interior design: SmithGroup
Contracting: HerreroBoldt
(a joint venture of Herrero
Builders and The Boldt Co.)
Engineering: Ted Jacobs
Engineering Group (mechanical
and plumbing), Degenkolb
Engineers (structural),
Silverman and Light (electrical)
Specialty Consultants: OneEQ
(formerly RTKL; medical
equipment)
Construction: HerreroBoldt
Carpet/flooring:
Mohawk Group, Tandus
Centiva, Mannington, Lonseal,
Johnsonite, C/S, Encore
Commercial, Daltile
Graphic Panels: C/S Acrovyn
Ceiling/wall systems:
Armstrong, 3form, Forms
+ Surfaces, Modular Arts,
Whisperwall System,
Conwedwall Technology,
9 Wood
Doors/locks/hardware:
Acrovyn, Besam, Schlage
Rockwood Pulls
Fabric/textiles: Anzea,
ArcCom, Architex, Carnegie,
CF Stinson, Designtex,
Enviroleather, Knoll,
Maharam, Momentum,
Pallas, Paul Brayton, Sit On
It, Spinneybeck, Stinson,
Ultrafabrics, Unika Vaev
Handrails/wall guards:
Pilkington Planar Glass, C/S
Acrovyn
Headwalls/booms: Amico,
Steris, Hill-Rom
Signage/wayfinding:
Plexiglass, 3form, Electronic
Kiosks

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