CHARLESTON, S.C.—E4H Environments for Health Architecture, the largest architecture firm solely dedicated to healthcare and health science + technology facility design, has announced its continued growth continues with the addition of a new office in Charleston, the firm’s 11th office location. As South Carolina continues to strengthen and grow community-focused healthcare, E4H is dedicated to supporting the next generation of healthcare providers and researchers who are advancing therapeutic approaches to care.

“The opening of our Charleston office is a natural extension of our strategic growth plan,” noted Jeremy Bartz, President. “As our Carolina client base grows, we place great value in our ability to provide accessible and exceptional service to our clients. This strategic location supplements our ten existing national offices, allowing us to establish and expand upon our subject matter expertise while capturing the pulse and values of the local community.”

“I am thrilled to help lead and develop our South Carolina presence with the opening of our Charleston Office” remarked Office Director Andrew Pardue, AIA, NCARB. “As a 100% healthcare and health science focused firm, E4H has a lot to offer healthcare institutions and providers here in South Carolina. I look forward to continuing to grow our local relationships.”

Together with the firm’s Charlotte, N.C., location, the Charleston office will continue to serve clients across the Carolinas including include Roper St. Francis, AnMed, Novant, and Atrium Health. E4H is committed to enhancing community health and wellness, bolstering innovative research initiatives, and continuing its mission of designing for the future of healthcare and health science + technology.

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NEW YORK CITY—E4H Environments for Health Architecture, the largest architecture firm solely dedicated to healthcare and health science + technology design, recently announced the firm has received the “Project of the Year Award – Under $50M” from the Association of Medical Facility Professionals (AMFP) for its renovation of the Mount Sinai Hospital Emergency Department. The esteemed accolade celebrates E4H’s expertise and contributions in the field of medical facility design.

E4H’s renovation, which will modernize the New York City hospital’s 30-year-old facility, began in 2020 and is slated for completion in 2024. The first phase of the five-year project created a 7,500-square-foot Rapid Medical Evaluation Unit to identify and treat lower acuity patients, allowing the Acute Unit to focus on sicker patients. Additional phases will involve consolidating administrative spaces to create more space for patient treatment and expanding and upgrading equipment in existing CT/X-Ray rooms. E4H also upgraded and expanded treatment areas within the Pediatric Emergency Department, allowing Mount Sinai to better serve its growing population of patients. The additions will allow the Emergency Department to serve twice as many patients and provide an improved care experience for the 100,000 people that visit each year.

The award, presented to the project team at AMFP NYC’s 2023 Awards Gala Dinner, highlights an outstanding project completed in the New York City metro region within the last three years. AMFP commended E4H for its outstanding achievement in healthcare design and its unwavering commitment to elevating patient care standards. The “Project of the Year Award – Under $50M” stands as a tribute to E4H’s creativity, ingenuity, and remarkable ability to bring visionary designs to life.

“We are honored to see E4H, our entire project team, and the Mount Sinai Hospital Emergency Department receive recognition for its tremendous effort in providing accessible healthcare for all,” said Jason Lee, LSSGB, Principal. “We are proud to have played a role in creating a facility that will positively impact countless lives through a design that accounts for a growing population.”

E4H is committed to enhancing community health and wellness, bolstering innovative research initiatives, and continuing its mission of designing for the future of healthcare and health science + technology. With a team of highly skilled professionals and a passion for elevating patient care, E4H consistently delivers cutting-edge designs that meet the unique needs of healthcare providers and their communities.

Project partners include Hunter Roberts Construction Group (HRCG) and Vanderweil Engineers.

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LYNN, Mass.—E4H Environments for Health Architecture, the top ranked architecture firm solely dedicated to healthcare and health science + technology facility design, has announced the grand opening of the new pharmacy at Lynn Community Health Center in Lynn. The 4,500-square-foot project provides much needed, affordable retail pharmacy services to a diverse, multi-lingual patient population.

E4H led the design of the project, working closely with community stakeholders to prioritize needs and improve patient access throughout the entire process. The new pharmacy is federally funded and provides specialized packaging that sorts medications for daily use as well as delivery to housebound patients. Located just off the main lobby on the first floor of the existing health center, this project includes a new retail pharmacy, consultation and immunization clinic space, and multi-purpose community rooms.

Located in the heart of Lynn, Massachusetts, the Lynn Community Health Center (LCHC) is a non-profit, multicultural, community health center serving over 40,000 patients throughout the region. LCHC uses an innovative, integrated patient-centered medical home model of care, which is designed to respect each patient’s unique needs. E4H provided planning and architectural design, and led a multi-day Lean 3P process to ensure the new pharmacy meets community needs, prioritizes staff safety, and optimizes workflows.

“Collaborating with the Lynn Community Health Center staff, and our project partners allowed us to design an efficient facility that better provides for this community,” remarked Kevin Neumann, Principal, AIA.

The project team includes Lee Kennedy Co (Construction), Stantec (Owner’s Project Manager), and AKF Group (MEP Engineer).

E4H is committed to enhancing community health and wellness, bolstering innovative research initiatives, and continuing its mission of designing for the future of healthcare and health science + technology.

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LEBANON, N.H. — Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital and E4H Environments for Health Architecture of Burlington, Vt., celebrated the opening of the new Alice Peck Day (APD) Memorial Hospital Multi-Specialty Clinic in November 2017. The construction of the 44,000-square-foot facility began in 2014, running a budget of approximately $11 million with the clinic functioning as a multi-specialty operation, providing myriad services all under one roof.

The services of this new multi-specialty clinic include primary and family care, pediatrics, women’s care, diagnostic imaging, phlebotomy, orthopedics, general surgery, and physical and occupational therapy.

One of the key goals of this design is to allow patients, who are often coming from long distances, to complete multiple appointments in one visit, creating a time-efficient service for all patients. For example, a family could schedule annual physicals for both parents and children as well as a physical therapy session for a family member recovering from shoulder or knee surgery. They could also have follow-up imaging or blood work done for a family member who recently had a procedure.

E4H Partner Jennifer Arbuckle, explained that the most important feature of this facility is the organizing principle of convenience, bringing with it a broad range of outpatient services into one building, for the benefit of both patients and healthcare providers.

“This design also makes it much easier for physicians and nurses from different health specialties to consult and collaborate with each other. They’re across or down the hall from each other, not in separate buildings,” Arbuckle said.

The completion of this facility highlights the layout of the exam rooms and the design of the waiting rooms. The layout of the exam rooms are standardized, modular and adaptable so that any exam room can be used over the course of a day by a primary-care doctor, pediatrician, gynecologist, orthopedist, general surgeon or other type of specialist or therapist. Arbuckle explained that this will increase the utilization rate of exam rooms, with positive financial benefits. The waiting rooms, check-in and checkout areas, as well as corridors, have all been situated to maximize the integration of daylight into the interior of the facility, with the hopes of creating a warm and welcoming environment for its patients.

E4H implemented specific design practices to bolster the focus of the facility on patient care and improve the overall delivery of services.

“E4H’s vision is always about creating flexible environments for health that enhance the well-being of patients and families — what we call ‘smart facility design.’ Working with Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital was a wonderful opportunity to bring this vision to life in the context of bringing a broad set of outpatient services into one New Hampshire location to maximize patient convenience and collaboration among healthcare providers,” said Arbuckle.

When asked about suggestions E4H may have for designing facilities such as these, Arbuckle explained the importance of best facilitating the convenience and collaboration for both patients and clinical staff.

“Translating this principle into design requires thoughtfully bringing together comprehensive, multidisciplinary user groups to develop and come to consensus on facility design plans — particularly flexible, modular design that can accommodate the full range of outpatient services provided in the multi-specialty clinic,” said Arbuckle. “As you can imagine, this requires lots of discussion and many rounds of refining and perfecting designs. Thankfully, we had very strong administrative leadership on the owner’s side that kept these conversations on track, always moving forward, and led to a facility design we believe everyone at APD — and most importantly, all their patients — will greatly appreciate for the convenience it provides and the collaboration in excellent healthcare delivery it promotes.”

The two-story clinic is fully operational and open to patients, centrally located on the Lebanon campus of Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital.

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