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The Memory Care Dementia Design Prototype was designed to give the residents multiple levels of privacy. Three semi-private resident rooms forms a “household” with shared living/dining spaces, kitchen and bathing facility. Theses “household”s opens into a communal community room, giving the residents both engaging places to mingle and share memories and quiet ones when they need some peace.

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As part of their master expansion plan, College Hospital Cerritos opted to build a brand new office building to house its existing administrative staff and to convert the administration wing in the existing psychiatric hospital into a resident wing. The new office building and tenant improvements not only gave ample space for the administration and included amenities such as skylights to let in natural light and stack-able medical records shelving units to conserve space.

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As part of their expansion study and master plan, College Hospital Cerritos opted to build a brand new office building to house its existing administrative staff and to convert the administration wing in the existing psychiatric hospital into a resident wing. The new space layout adds an additional 30 beds to the Psychiatric Hospital. Safety being one of the major criteria in psychiatric hospital design, much attention was given to the details, with particular consideration given to non-ligature design to ensure resident and staff safety.

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Hospital TI work to renovate several Nurse Stations including ones in the Intensive Care Unit at Kindred Hospital Westminster.

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The kitchen addition project at California Park Rehabilitation Center rose out of the owner’s continue desire to improve the quality of life for their residents. The skilled nursing facility had been receiving meal services from an adjacent assisted living facility for many years. However, the facility determined that by constructing a fully functional kitchen and expanding their dietary services, it would allow more flexibility for their operations and further enhance the level of care they provide to their residents. The complexity of a nursing home kitchen requires close team work with OSHPD, DHS and the facility to develop a kitchen design that both satisfy the needs of the facility and comply with the many technical requirements found in the California Building Code and Title 22 requirements. We continued that working relationship with the OSHPD field staff, and the construction team as we navigated through the many challenges of combining the new and existing building.

 

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A large factor in how success is measured in retirement home design is how well the solution addresses the user’s needs.The new lobby and the remodeled breezeway at Keiro Retirement Home is a great example of how listening to the needs of the residents can lead to a translation that is both a creative architectural solution, and an improvement in lifestyle for the user.

For the lobby portion, we captured the existing exterior front patio and transformed it into a warm and inviting space for the residents to gather and mingle while people watching, waiting for their loved ones, or relaxing to the sound of the gentle, trickling sounds of the interior fountain.The breezeway prior to the renovation was a cold and loud space, with blustering winds and an excessive amount of noise carrying from the freeway below. The remodel created a now useable space for the residents to enjoy the sunset against the Los Angeles skyline, have a conversation, or simply enjoy the outdoors while staying dry under the series of skylights and trellises.

Listening to a resident happily tell you how much she enjoys the space now and loves to come down to listen to the fountain, and walk out and be able to watch the sunset, is one of the best accolades we can get!