The Pavilion at PENN Center
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Project-at-a-Glance:
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania was working through the design for The Pavilion, a new inpatient tower. A new partnership with a local contractor resulted in the development and creation of the efficient storage needed for each of The Pavilion’s 504 private patient rooms and 47 operating rooms at the facility.
The Pavilion at PENN Center is an innovative hospital facility, planned for completion and opening in 2021 with the goal to support Penn’s world-renowned researchers, clinicians, and faculty. Behind this groundbreaking facility is a group called PennFIRST — an integrated team of designers, healthcare specialists, engineers, and builders.
Using an integrated project delivery strategy, this team works collaboratively to develop solutions that put patients and caregivers first —– creating a flexible space for the people who occupy it while always keeping one eye on the ever-changing nature of healthcare and what might be needed in the future. When completed, the Pavilion will house over 500 patient rooms and 47 operating rooms in a 1.5 million square foot, 17-story facility.
The beginning:
Creating designs and options for the PennFIRST team
FlowCARE was contacted by the PennFIRST team in Fall 2018, where we were asked to explore and create design options for the nurse servers that would be placed in the Pavilion. We worked to create different designs that included the standard features of our patented nurse servers: locking pass-through medicine drawers, pass-through linen and PPE baskets, and our interchangeable pass-through, tilt-down basket system for supplies. In addition, we engineered the exteriors of the nurse servers using high-pressure laminate and hi-macs solid surfaces.
We presented our designs to the team, and were confident that we had a great solution for them — so when we were initially notified by PennFIRST’s Construction Management Team that a local contractor has been selected to produce the nurse servers, we were devastated. What we didn’t know was that there was a plan — a plan that would result in an innovative partnership.
504 nurse servers — and a partnership
Over the next nine months, we worked with PDM to create a FlowCARE nurse server insert that would create the efficiencies that the PennFIRST team needed for The Pavilion, and after numerous prototypes, a design was decided on in November 2019. We’ve now shipped all 504 nurse server inserts, and what’s more — we now have a new relationship with a manufacturer where we’ve been able to bounce ideas, plans, and designs off of one another. We’re also discussing how we can collaborate on future projects — something that never would have happened had the PennFIRST team not introduced us.
We’ve now shipped all 504 nurse server inserts, and what’s more — we now have a new relationship with a manufacturer where we’ve been able to bounce ideas, plans, and designs off of one another.
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