By Healthcare Facilities Today

In a recent blog on the Healthcare Design magazine website, editor in chief Kristin D. Zeit wrote about her tour of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center's newly renovated Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute (CBDI). 

"While all children’s hospitals face the challenge of designing a facility that will feel welcoming whether a patient is 2 or 18, Perentesis and the design team from GBBN Architects (Cincinnati) took a different approach for the CBDI—and sort of split the unit in half," she wrote.

According to the blog, the design team created unique but related experiences for patients depending on their age. Cincinnati-based graphic design firm Kolar Design provided artwork and graphics. 

"On one side, young children are surrounded by a playful, colorful jungle theme with age-appropriate games and amenities; on the other, the theme is modified with a more mature approach—but it remains positive and uplifting, and certainly in line with the overall aesthetic of the hospital."

The design begins with separate waiting rooms and carries all the way through the outpatient and inpatient clinics. The layout includes a central core where staff can move between the two sides and convene in closed-off work areas to confer with other team members in a well-equipped, easily accessed environment, the blog said.

Read the blog.