Innovative design emphasizes easy access

Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, PA, opened its new Health Care Campus, a construction which exemplifies the move towards a better organizational structure that helps minimize patient and visitor disorientation. The design of the 350,000-sq-ft, three-story ambulatory care center, known as The Health Pavilion, emphasizes patient comfort and convenience, while also providing physicians and patients with convenient access to outpatient medical care. Unlike many other facilities that contain a maze of confusing corridors, it is organized around a central atrium, creating an easily understandable traffic flow for patients, visitors and staff.