The Ohio State University, Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital
Columbus, OhioLocated at The Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, the 90-bed, 225,000 square foot Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital is one of a few dedicated academic heart hospitals nationwide. Its clinical care space provides a continuum of cardio thoracic testing and care, from simple EKGs to heart-lung transplants, including the only adult heart transplant program in central Ohio. Contiguous with comprehensive research and patient care facilities at the Medical Center, the Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute and the College of Allied Medicine, this hospital allows staff to move new discoveries from research areas to the patient's bedside, giving patients access to the most advanced science and treatment methods available.
As part of the academic health center's master plan, this project integrates design solutions for the following key elements that make up the primary arrival zone:
The design opportunities that sprang from this project included several critically interdependent elements and activities, resulting in an urbanistic solution and balancing programs, image, circulation routes, linkages of adjacent programs and a general revitalization of the campus arrival experience.
The Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital developed as a prominent gateway event at street level, and as an advanced cardiac treatment center on other levels. Its prominent atrium functions as a beacon for arriving traffic, and as a magnet for complex vehicular and pedestrian crossroads, while establishing a "spatial heart" for the surrounding cardiac services.
Designed and built with the goal of combining the latest technology and outstanding, patient-focused care, the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital provides a world-class healing environment for the cardiovascular patient, resulting in a whole new image, entry approach and focus for The Ohio State University Medical Campus with the latest cardiac technology and a patient experience second to none.