2025 Vista Award winners

The Glick Center was awarded the Vista Award for New Construction.

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Medical centers and hospitals serve as crucial cornerstones of their communities — delivering critical care and promoting treatment and healing. To operate at their best, they require cutting-edge facilities designed to adapt to evolving needs. Achieving this often involves significant upgrades — complex projects that call for meticulous planning, strategic vision and effective teamwork.

The Vista Awards, presented each year by the American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) of the American Hospital Association, honor excellence in team-based health care construction, renovation and infrastructure projects. These prestigious honors recognize projects that enhance medical facilities while showcasing extraordinary collaboration and ingenuity in addressing complex challenges. The Vista Awards celebrate teams that work together to establish and maintain safe, high-performing health care environments, foster clear communication and leverage data-driven strategies for success.

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MetroHealth’s The Glick Center — New Construction

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AdventHealth Shawnee Mission — Renovation

In 2025, ASHE celebrates two achievements: the building of the 11-floor The Glick Center on MetroHealth’s Cleveland campus, recipient of this year’s Vista Award for New Construction; and the renovation of Tower 2 of AdventHealth Shawnee Mission’s campus in Merriam, Kan., winner of the 2025 Vista Award for Renovation. (A winner was not selected in the Infrastructure category this year.)

MetroHealth’s new acute care hospital, The Glick Center, is a cutting-edge facility that anchors the main campus in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. Part of a $946 million campus transformation, the 723,643-square-foot hospital includes nine patient-care floors and 316 rooms equipped for intensive care, each with family sleeping areas and large flatscreen monitors for care plans and remote communication.

The building is LEED-certified and nationally recognized for environmental sustainability, and it sits in the nation’s first EcoDistrict led by a health care system. The design integrates elements of nature and community, featuring biophilic design, local artwork and a performance space for local artists. Additionally, the transformation includes a 1,500-space parking garage and will see half of the 52-acre campus dedicated to green space.

“Large new construction health care projects like The Glick Center are often challenging on so many levels — including navigating the large design and construction team, maintaining active care around a construction site, adjusting for staff and user changes that span the project life, adapting during a worldwide pandemic, and dealing with socioeconomic changes,” says Mark Chrisman, health sector executive for Henderson Engineers in Lenexa, Kan., and a member of the Vista Awards Task Force that judged the candidates. “It takes a team prepared for these challenges, one open to collaboration and that has the ability to adapt to the project and owner needs throughout design and construction. The MetroHealth team demonstrated these skills and, in turn, is providing a community with the care it needs.”

The $29.2 million renovation of Tower 2 at AdventHealth Shawnee Mission transformed the oldest building on campus, originally constructed in 1972, into a modern, state-of-the-art facility. Spanning four levels and 144 patient rooms, the project upgraded aging infrastructure, standardized nursing units and created a healing environment aligned with AdventHealth’s values and health care standards.

The exterior received a full facelift with 220 expanded windows, while interior work was completed in phases to maintain operations and minimize disruptions. The team modernized systems, including heating, ventilating and air-conditioning; electrical; and emergency power, while adhering to safety protocols, achieving zero Occupational Safety and Health Administration recordable incidents throughout the complex, multi-phase project.

“The bottom-line success was impressive at AdventHealth Shawnee Mission, and our selection team was unanimous in choosing this winner for the Renovation category. There was no lost time due to accidents, the job was completed on time and on budget, patient and caregiver satisfaction levels increased, and the finished product is a beautiful one,” says Vista Awards Task Force member Randy Keiser, vice president of Turner Construction Company in Nashville, Tenn.

The Vista Award winners received their accolades at the 2025 International Summit & Exhibition on Health Facility Planning, Design & Construction™ (PDC Summit™), which took place on March 9-12 in Atlanta. 

Vista Awards task force

The following health care facilities professionals served on the task force that chose the 2025 American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) Vista Award honorees:

• Jason A. Piper (chair and non-voting committee member), administrative director of planning, design and construction at AdventHealth MidAmerica Region in Merriam, Kan.
• Mark Chrisman, health sector executive at Henderson Engineers in Lenexa, Kan.
• Erin Horng, lead specialist at ASHE in Chicago.
• Randy Keiser, vice president at Turner Construction Co. in Nashville, Tenn.
• Ravi Raman, principal at Ram-Tech Engineers PC in Syracuse, N.Y.
• Damian Richard Skelton, PE, CHFM, SASHE, vice president for FacilitiGroup at HCA Healthcare in Nashville, Tenn.
• Kurt Spiering, AIA, ACHA, vice president/principal at HGA in Wauwatosa, Wis.

Erik J. Martin is a freelance writer based in Oak Lawn, Ill.