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Healthcare Design Excellence Award
Presented to HKS
Presbyterian Hospital of Flower Mound
Flower Mound, Texas

Project Description

The Presbyterian Hospital of Flower Mound is a 100-bed Acute Care hospital, with Imaging, Labor & Delivery, Nursery, Intensive Care and Emergency Department services. The design solution resulted in a four-story hospital that meets the program requirements, while maximizing healing views to the densely wooded and beautifully landscaped site. The facility also utilizes intuitive way-finding, and maximizes staff-to-patient proximity to improve patient care.

Special challenges included making the project as sustainable as possible in pursuit of a LEED Silver rating. Carpets and paints were selected with low-VOCs to aid in this effort. LED lighting was used in the project to improve energy use and minimize maintenance needs. High-efficiency mechanical equipment was specified to help improve Indoor Air Quality and efficiency.

The project demonstrates Health Safety & Welfare by providing numerous healing views to nature. The lobby areas and meditation room on the first floor boast generous floor-to-ceiling views of the meticulously landscaped, lush courtyard. A vast majority of patient rooms and patient corridors also provide views outdoors.

Evidence based design suggests that artwork as a ‘positive distraction’ helps the patients’ healing process. With an ‘interior architecture serving as artwork’ approach to the art in the hospital, numerous installations create positive distractions for the patients, families and staff. These include the 3-dimensional metal ‘Trees of Life’ niches in the lobby, the graphic film designs at the Meditation room and the Nursery, the sculpted art panel at the Gift Shop and the back-lit decorative acrylic behind the reception desk.

The diamond-polished concrete floor in the public areas on the first floor promotes ease of rolling traffic and maintenance. Security measures, such as locating Reception/Security desks at all entrances, as well as providing locking doors to control traffic to-and-from the Nursery, improve the overall security of the hospital and its patients. The layout of the patient floors, with a central nurse station dedicated to each bay of patient rooms promotes improved patient care and reduces fatigue of the nurses.

Judges Comments

• the abundance of natural materials provides a great connection to nature in addition to the windows for views and natural light
• the details are great; it is a classic and timeless design as much as one can bee
• the use of regional stone is unusual and yet appealing in a hospital