Featured Project: Penn Medicine’s New Workplace of the Future
We Are Healthcare Architects:
NK Architects is an award-winning, full-service healthcare design firm, seamlessly blending expertise with empathy. Prioritizing patient-centered design and the input of end-users, our commitment extends beyond renderings and building materials; we design environments that nurture healing, vitality, and innovation.
With an understanding that the built healthcare environment must be predicated on a wide variety of factors, we consider our clients’ strategic and operational goals before design development, which can be informed by intelligence drawn from demographic and competitive analyses, staffing and productivity studies, emerging technologies, and capital solutions. This integrated approach ensures that our work not only improves patient outcomes, staff satisfaction, and operational efficiency but accommodates flexibility and adaptability for future growth.
Our team of architects, interior designers, planners, and engineers bring unparalleled levels of insight to the table through their national perspective on healthcare issues and ability to navigate local financial and operational concerns, enabling NK to serve as a dedicated advocate through the planning, design, and construction phases of our client’s respective projects.
From labor and delivery suites to hospice centers, our expansive healthcare portfolio spans the spectrum of human life. NK has a breadth of experience in the adaptive reuse, remodeling, and new construction of emergency departments, neo-natal and operating suites, and ambulatory, cancer, cardiovascular, psychiatric, rehabilitation and senior care centers.
As one of the leading healthcare design firms in the New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia region, NK Architects sets the standard for excellence, crafting environments that strengthen the fabric of a community—its people—to support those who are navigating and working within the healthcare system.
Latest Projects:
St Luke’s University Hospital Network, Mother & Babies Pavilion, Allentown, PA The five-story, 99,000 s/f expansion and renovation of St. Luke’s Mother and Babies Pavilion doubles the facility’s delivery capacity to 2,200 births annually and upgrades the NICU to a level 3 program. Increasing the capacity of the OB program presented challenges including limited space, adjacency concerns, and patient/staff circulation.
A master plan study guided the vertically oriented program layout, successfully addressing project challenges, while increasing the number of medical/surgical beds available and expanding same day surgery services in the hospital.
Penn Medicine, 150 Monument Rd., Bala Cynwyd, PA Prototyping a more flexible, value-driven approach to the healthcare workplace, Penn Medicine’s first “Workplace of the Future” spans two floors of the 150 Monument Rd. building.
The hub-and-spoke workplace model is a new standard for Penn Medicine, drawing on trends in coworking and remote work to decant non-clinical staff and free up hospital space for revenue generating healthcare services. Apart from a few designated private offices, much of the floorplan is unallocated and is comprised of open workstations, conference rooms, and informal social and collaborative spaces. Using scheduling software, staff can reserve the space that best suits the work they need to accomplish on any given day.
Penn Medicine plans to establish several of these workplaces across the metropolitan area, enabling employees to conveniently visit offices in closer proximity to where they reside.
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