Indu & Raj Soin Medical Center Completes Expansion

BEAVERCREEK, Ohio — In July, the Indu & Raj Soin Medical Center in Beavercreek completed its fourth-floor expansion, which included 32 new acute care rooms that increased the center’s capacity by about 33 percent. The project is part of a $430,000 expansion that includes the completion of the fourth and fifth floor, which were originally shelled in the project’s first phase.

San Diego-based Pacific 33 Architects Inc. designed the expansion. “Hospital leadership shared a comment with the design team recently from a patient, who described the hospital room design as promoting peaceful, calm healing. A great validation for the efforts of many people who committed to this vision for the new hospital,” said Denise Burkett, principal for the firm, in a statement.

The $135 million medical center, designed by HOK Architects, with offices in Chicago, opened in February 2012 and is one of eight hospitals operated by Kettering Health Network. It was built in response to growing patient volumes. With the fourth-floor expansion complete, the hospital now has a total of 127 beds, according to the Dayton Business Journal.

The hospital design features a hotel-style environment that promotes comfort throughout the services offered, which include emergency care, heart, surgery and radiology. Evidence-based design principles were used in the design of the patient rooms. The design calls for same-hand rooms, which eliminate mistakes in caregiving by positioning all medical devices, equipment and controls in the exact same way in every room.

Also incorporated into the patient experience is the GetWellNetwork, which provides an array of interactive services to guests. Interactive TVs, found in each patient room at Soin, let patients watch TV and movies, surf the Internet, play games and access a complete library of health information. Patients can even shop at the gift shop and fill prescriptions through their TV. S