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The Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center is underway with numerous expansion projects and the landscape is being improved significantly to meet the adopted standards.

One of the most vital additions to the campus is the introduction of a major Healing Garden adjacent to the Main Hospital Building, Heart Center and the New Ambulatory Services Center.  The garden will have a wonderful water feature which flows through the center of the garden, with a looping walkway that bridges over the spillway, a covered seating area, arbors, an elevated deck and arbor over a rain fed creek to wetland.  A wide variety of seating is provided for small meditative spaces to open table seating with umbrellas.  Ramps, stairs and varied paving materials are accessible for therapeutic sessions.

This garden will be the center piece of the campus offering many healing attributes both environmentally and for the users being patients, family, friends of patients, and staff.

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This seacoast community hospital undertook the addition of a Medical Office Building with landscaping that would be salt tolerant and colorful.  Our plantings included numerous perennials, ornamental grasses and seacoast plantings.  The sandy soils were also taken into consideration for irrigation purposes.

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Our goal for this medical center project was to retain as much of the existing, native vegetation on site as possible and to incorporate a majority of native plants into the new landscaping. Site features included a “stormwater feature”, which will replicate a natural stream bed with multiple water falls; a healing garden located adjacent to the main lobby, which will serve as a viewing garden and outdoor gathering space; and an outdoor patio space for staff. The project is currently pursuing LEED Silver.

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The Sky Lakes Medical Center incorporated a  number of Healing Environments both inside and out.  Visitors are greeted in the lobby with a beautiful courtyard garden and water screen.  Here the lobby completely surrounds this garden with views and access to the natural setting.     A center piece of this design is a 5,700 square foot healing garden on the second floor.  It features a variety of seating areas,  a shading arbor, quiet meditation areas, as well a labyrinth, all on the rooftop over the operating rooms.   Another rooftop terrace which overlooks the lobby courtyard is for the staff so they can get some fresh air and a break from their duties.  All of these gardens and the site landscaping were designed with plantings that were tolerant of the cold winters and hot summers characteristic of the Klamath Falls region.

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For Providence Health System in Milwaukie, we designed the landscaping of the new Medical Office Building (Healing Place)  to reflect the local characteristics of the neighborhood were we created a delicate mixture of flowering plants and ornamental grasses.  We were also challenged with the task of creating a beautiful Healing Garden a short stroll from the entrance of the building.

Testimonials

“Kudos’ on a great job at the MOB! The landscaping looks great. The location and variety of plant materials is beautiful and I think it’s a gem… The Healing Garden also worked out terrific. I think the scale is right on and the small size worked as an advantage…”

Scott W. Harris, AIA

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The Cancer Center at Samaritan is expanding its service level on the GSRMC campus. MEP will be developing numerous gardens including; a central courtyard garden with a significant water feature, natural landscaping adjacent to the treatment units (screened for privacy), entrance plaza and landscaping and a relocated labyrinth garden.

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Macdonald Environmental Planning was engaged on this University District campus to design the pubic courtyards for patients, staff and family members to enjoy.  The courtyards were planned to promote access to natural plantings, water features and gathering areas for healing purposes.  Three water features were designed to make the gardens tranquil and meditative in order to increase mental outlook during recovery time.  Sustainable features were used as well with the addition of living greenwalls and a rain fed spillway was incorporated for viewing from the public cafeteria.  Also, a Behaviorial Health garden was developed for the safe and guided access for patients having difficulties with mental stability issues.