Queen Elizabeth Hospital - Stage 1
Woodville, South Australia
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (TQEH) is one of the major hospital facilities of the North Western Adelaide Health Service (NWAHS). Built in the 1950's, TQEH required urgent redevelopment to meet the revised service delivery framework definition and to ensure recurrent operating efficiencies could be made.
Woodhead were commissioned to undertake a masterplan study to identify the preferred option for development. A new build option, with the retention of some existing facilities, allowed the staged construction of a new three storey hospital containing all of the functional patient care requirements in a tight, efficient and totally modern facility.
Effective zoning of outpatients, diagnostic and treatment, inaptient and hotel services is achieved creating optimum levels of efficiency, long term flexibility, minimum operational cost and maximum patient focus. The 'Hospital in a Garden' theme was born out of the opportunity presented by the master plan to radically change the site environment.
Woodhead were engaged as the Architects and Interior Designers for the Stage 1 patient accommodation building, which consists of two, three storey diamond shaped ward buildings joined at one of the points and a rectangular staff facilities and hospital street building linking the ward diamonds at another two points.
Each of the wards in the first stage has been designed to enjoy the open vistas of the hospital gardens without disturbing patient privacy. The many and varied gardens play an integral part in the healing process, with private gardens being specifically designed to engender positive emotional responses in patients, their visitors and hospital staff.
Woodhead were commissioned to undertake a masterplan study to identify the preferred option for development. A new build option, with the retention of some existing facilities, allowed the staged construction of a new three storey hospital containing all of the functional patient care requirements in a tight, efficient and totally modern facility.
Effective zoning of outpatients, diagnostic and treatment, inaptient and hotel services is achieved creating optimum levels of efficiency, long term flexibility, minimum operational cost and maximum patient focus. The 'Hospital in a Garden' theme was born out of the opportunity presented by the master plan to radically change the site environment.
Woodhead were engaged as the Architects and Interior Designers for the Stage 1 patient accommodation building, which consists of two, three storey diamond shaped ward buildings joined at one of the points and a rectangular staff facilities and hospital street building linking the ward diamonds at another two points.
Each of the wards in the first stage has been designed to enjoy the open vistas of the hospital gardens without disturbing patient privacy. The many and varied gardens play an integral part in the healing process, with private gardens being specifically designed to engender positive emotional responses in patients, their visitors and hospital staff.