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Healthcare & Senior Living Round Up Gunnison Valley Health Upgrades Senior Care
The Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center welcomed its first residents in November 2018, when the new 51,498-SF facility opened. Providing 38-beds of skilled nursing and 12-beds of memory care, the new building replaced the hospital’s former 29,000-SF nursing home. The owner, Gunnison Valley Health,
is working with Davis Partnership Architects on the design of the facility, which began with an extensive site analysis. Land use options considered long-term growth for the facility in terms of future expansion; contextual influences like views, vistas, and visual axis; site orientation, building placement, and massing; and vehicular and pedestrian circulation.
Designed to around a “neighborhood” concept currently influencing best practices in senior living,
Image(s) credit: Frank Ooms
the idea is to create homelike environments shared
by clusters of 15 – 18 people. Most residents have private rooms oriented around group dining, gathering, and social living spaces. The heart of each neighborhood is the kitchen and nursing stations
are carefully integrated into common areas to create natural synergies between residents and staff. Each neighborhood is joined to the larger facility through an overall campus common featuring physical therapy, salon, administrative offices, and activity rooms.
FCI Constructors’ Durango office broke ground on the project in September 2017 and completed for a November 2018 opening.
Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion Expands High-Acuity Care
Construction is nearing completion on a fast-track effort at UCHealth’s Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion on the first floor of the University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. The Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion is home to multiple clinical and surgical suites and patients that require an overnight stay as part of their treatment.
Altus Architects led design services for The Children’s Hospital of Colorado on the addition of approximately 7,800-SF to create a ten-bed, high-acuity urgent
care addition to the main emergency department. Special care was taken in the design to account for anti-ligature measures in all fixtures and care-giver equipment in secure patient rooms along with coiling doors around medical gas assemblies. A nurses’ station and secure storage areas are also included in the expanding floorplan.
TKM Group is taking responsibility for construction services on a 15-week schedule. Construction began in January 2019 and is expected to be complete in late April.
Image credit: Altus Architects
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