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After one of two hospitals in Great Bend announced plans to provide only outpatient services, administrators at Great Bend Regional Hospital began to plan. Realizing that a demand in inpatient services was imminent, they began to explore plans for expansion. Hospital administrators turned to GLMV Architecture’s Ryan Craft to master plan a series of additions, upgrades and changes throughout their campus to accommodate the anticipated patient increase. Ryan and the team are working with the hospital to design new spaces and upgrades and are also assisting in equipment placement and analyzing the workflow in the surgical suites. “The hardest part …
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The Via Christi Cancer Institute would be created from two thirds of the seventh floor of a busy hospital, explains Ryan Craft, Project Designer for GLMV. “We had to find the best way to separate ourselves and the construction mess from the rest of the facility.” The solution, implemented in collaboration with the project’s general contractor, was to build a temporary construction elevator and fasten it to the outside of the building. Seventh floor windows were turned into doors to allow access to the new “express elevator.” As a result of innovation and coordination of the project team, “All the …
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