We Create Environments That Improve the Quality of Care
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We create environments that improve the quality of care Anna Jaques Hospital Lawrence Memorial Hospital McLean Hospital Arbour-Fuller Hospital Melrose-Wakefield Hospital North Shore Medical Center Atrius Health Harrington Memorial Hospital Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Worcester Medical Center Hartford HealthCare Riverside Health System Baystate Health Hartford Hospital Sentara Healthcare Baystate Franklin Medical Center William W. Backus Hospital Albemarle Hospital Baystate Medical Center Harvard Medical School BelleHarbour Beth Israel Deaconess Healthcare (CareGroup) Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Greenbrier HealthPlex Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital—Milton Hospital Corporation of America West Creek Campus Independence (formerly Bayside Hospital) Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Johns Hopkins University Hospital Kitty Hawk Medical Center BJC HealthCare Joslin Diabetes Center Leigh Hospital Barnes-Jewish Hospital Kaiser Permanente Norfolk General Hospital Bon Secours Health System King Faisal Specialty Hospital & Research Centre Princess Anne Hospital Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center Lahey Health Sentara Healthcare Corporate Headquarters Mary Immaculate Hospital Beverly Hospital Ambulatory Care Center Virginia Beach General Hospital Imaging Center at Reynolds Crossing Hunt Medical Center Southcoast Health St. Mary’s Hospital Lahey Clinic Charlton Memorial Hospital Boston Medical Center Winchester Hospital St. Luke’s Hospital Brockton Hospital Landmark Medical Center South County Hospital Bronx PsychiatricOur Center innovative Lawrence & Memorial Hospital South Nassau Communities Hospital Cambridge Health Alliance Lawrence General Hospital South Shore Hospital Cape Cod Healthcare Lemuel Shattuck Hospital Steward Health Care System Cape Cod Hospital Lifespan Health Holy Family Hospital Falmouth Hospital thinking leads Bradley Hospital Norwood Hospital Care New England Health System Miriam Hospital St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Kent Hospital Rhode Island Hospital St. John’s Riverside Hospital Women & Infants Hospital to creative, Loyola University Medical Center St. Joseph’s Healthcare Center Caring Health Center Maine Medical Center Stony Brook University Hospital Catholic Health Services of Long Island Mary Washington Hospital Symmes Hospital Good practicalSamaritan Hospital Medical solutionsCenter Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary Tufts University School of Dental Medicine St. Francis Hospital Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center UConn Health Centra Health Mercy Medical Center UMass Memorial Health Care Charles River Hospitalfor our clients. Middlesex Hospital Leominster Hospital Children’s Hospital Boston Morristown Medical Center UMass Memorial Medical Center Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Mount Auburn Hospital UNC Healthcare CHKD Health System Nassau University Medical Center University Hospitals of Cleveland Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters New England Baptist Hospital UMass Medical School Oakbrooke Health Center New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation University of Pennsylvania Health System Princess Anne Health and Surgery Center Harlem Hospital Center UVA Health System Southgate Commons Kings County Hospital Veterans Health Administration Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Queens Hospital Center VAMC Boston Dartmouth-Hitchcock Northwell Health Center for Advanced Medicine VAMC Brooklyn Cheshire Medical Center Franklin Hospital VAMC Hampton Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Glen Cove Hospital VAMC Northampton Duke University Medical Center Lenox Hill Hospital VAMC Orlando Eastern Virginia Medical School Northwell HealUniversity Hospital VAMC Providence Elliot Hospital Plainview Hospital VAMC Richmond Emerson Hospital Southside Hospital VCU Medical Center Exeter Hospital Northern Westchester Hospital WakeMed Health & Hospitals Florida Hospital Norwalk Hospital WakeMed Cary Hospital Flushing Hospital Medical Center Novant Health WakeMed Garner Healthplex Frisbie Memorial Hospital Hospice House WakeMed North Hospital Gouverneur Healthcare Services Prince William Hospital WakeMed Raleigh Campus Granite Healthcare Network Osteopathic Hospital of Maine Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Catholic Medical Center Partners HealthCare Weill Cornell Medical College Concord Hospital Brigham & Women’s Hospital Westchester Medical Center Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Cooley Dickinson Hospital Winthrop-University Hospital Hallmark Health System Faulkner Hospital Youville Hospital & Rehabilitation Center Hallmark Health Medical Center Massachusetts General Hospital 3 Who We Are 9 How We Work 13 Delivering Results 29 Healthcare Experience 39 Select Experience 2 Founded in 1979 1,300 passionate professionals including engineers, scientists, planners, and designers 24 offices throughout the east coast Who We Are We are VHB. We are passionate about making meaningful contributions to the world through the work we do. Healthcare and VHB Project Oce A healthcare institution’s mission is to heal; our mission is to help. VHB's team of skilled professionals are experienced in the planning, design, and permitting of complex healthcare facilities with an emphasis “outside-the-building-walls.” Our engineers, planners, and scientists brings a sophisticated understanding of contemporary healthcare environments. We thrive within collaborative design Project Office teams, engaging architecture, construction management, and development firms. Whether addressing aging infrastructure, parking needs, wayfinding, patient satisfaction, resiliency planning, or regulatory requirements, VHB is committed to serving our healthcare clients as they build for the future. By incorporating an innovative and sustainable design approach, we help create environments that improve the quality of care. 3 Professional Services VHB offers the focus and personal attention of a small consulting firm backed VHB develops by the in-house resources of a 1,300-person, multidisciplinary company. Our team provides solutions to many of the special challenges associated with solutions that healthcare environments such as academic medical centers, in which research, enable our teaching, and clinical care functions coexist. We recognize the importance of the patient-centered model within specialized hospitals, and develop healthcare clients responsive site designs, parking facilities, and wayfinding systems that affect a positive patient experience. We successfully address the unique requirements to focus on of community hospitals including constrained capacity and increased demand, and the necessity to remain fully operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We delivering quality also understand the financial challenges facing healthcare delivery and support patient care. our healthcare system clients as they reposition lower-acuity service lines out to the lower-cost, ambulatory/outpatient environments. VHB’s site/civil practice A healthcare setting planning and pedestrian/ focuses on the planning presents a unique set of bicycle accommodations. and design of healthcare transportation and mobility We formulate transportation facilities. Our engineers issues. Solutions focus on plans that support our client’s provide comprehensive site integration of all modes of sustainability initiatives by planning and design services transportation, requiring a developing transportation that assist our clients with balanced program of policy, demand management and implementation of minor site operational management, trip reduction strategies. Our Site/Civil Engineering Site/Civil improvements to major capital and capital investments. work is supportive of broader programs, encompassing a VHB’s transportation practice healthy community design broad range of healthcare serves healthcare clients by initiatives, an issue that is being facility types. Our civil improving pedestrian and increasingly being addressed design responds to program vehicular environments, by our healthcare clients. and budget requirements, addressing access needs for while integrating with patients, visitors, staff, as well existing site conditions in an as service and emergency environmentally responsive Planning and Engineering Transportation personnel. manner. Our engineers take a leading role in securing Our traffic engineers and necessary approvals and parking professionals address permits from regulatory challenges through the agencies and utility providers, thoughtful design of access, representing our clients and parking, and circulation projects in public hearings improvements. We apply and meetings. state-of-the-art modeling and simulation technology that We implement a sustainable provides a clear understanding design approach with more of a project’s transportation than 85 LEED-accredited requirements and impacts. We professionals and over 100 use these analyses to identify Envision™ Sustainability a range of potential multi- Professionals (ENV-SP’s) modal solutions to meet those representing the major needs, ranging from capacity physical design disciplines. enhancements to existing roadways and intersections; design of new transportation corridors and planning for transit systems; valet systems 4 85 LEED- accredited professionals and over 100 EnvisionTM Sustainability Professionals VHB’s environmental VHB offers a comprehensive Our landscape architects engineers, planners services approach to enhance the growth and and scientists provide healthcare facilities—we expansion of hospitals, environmental services as combine resiliency planning medical centers and clinics,