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Resilient health care design
In a practice known as "resilient design" health care design and construction professionals are developing facilities made to resist a variety of natural or human-induced disasters and to recover quickly afterward. View the related article "Resilient health care design."
St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., was blown apart by a direct hit from a tornado in 2011. | Photo by Mark Humphrey/AP
A replacement facility for a hospital destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, Chalmette, La.-based St. Bernard Parish Hospital (inset) features major mechanical equipment positioned 16 feet above the area’s base-flood elevation. | Photos by Robert Pepple/Pepple Photography
Scheduled to open next year, Major Hospital, Shelbyville, Ind., is designed to resist damage and maintain critical functions during severe weather while also featuring expansion zones and shell space to meet the community’s future needs. | Rendering courtesy of BSA LifeStructures
The first-floor concourse connecting 11 buildings at the University of Texas Medical Branch campus in Galveston is designed following FEMA’s wet flood-proofing method and materials such as tile, terrazzo and fiberglass-reinforced plastic that can withstand water damage. | Photo courtesy of HDR Inc.
Following Hurricane Sandy, NYU Langone Medical Center has instituted a campuswide flood mitigation program, including reinforced and waterproofed walls surrounding the new Ronald O. Perelman Center for Emergency Services. | Photo courtesy of NYU Langone Medical Center
Steel bracing is included in the design of Baptist Memorial Healthcare Rehabilitation Hospital in Germantown, Tenn., which is located near the New Madrid fault line. | Photo by Michael Peck