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Christina Grimes, ACHA, AIA + LEED BD+C

Christina is a firmwide leader of NBBJ’s global healthcare practice.  She brings more than two decades of experience building close partnerships with C-suite healthcare executives and leading institutions across the country from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to New York City’s Hospital for Special Surgery. Focused on creating healing spaces that provide hope and respite to patients and clinicians alike, Christina was named “HCD10 Team MVP” by Healthcare Design magazine.  

Principal | Firmwide Healthcare Practice Leader 

Ryan Hullinger, AIA, NCARB

Ryan leads NBBJ’s international healthcare practice, bringing a unique focus on enhanced clinical performance and adaptable hospital design. He is committed to ensuring that research-driven methodologies are at the center of NBBJ’s design process.  Ryan has presented ideas, projects, and design research at conferences and forums across the United States and abroad.

Partner | Board Member | Firmwide Healthcare Practice Leader

Andrea Rufe, Assoc. AIA

Andrea’s professional career in healthcare started by providing continuing medical education accreditation and has developed as she works to define and forecast the future of healthcare. Through space and functional programming, facility analytics, and Lean program planning, Andrea creates scenarios that help determine the needs of the client and patient by eliminating inefficiencies and increasing satisfaction. 

Loma Linda Campus Transformation: Loma Linda’s new building is designed to prioritize service lines and care models—such as imaging, inpatient surgeries, private single rooms and open-core nursing units—that could not be housed compliantly in costly outpatient environments.

Loma Linda University Medical Center. Loma Linda, California. Image license: NBBJ, Loma Linda Medical Center, McCarthy Construction, Arup, Stantec and JTEC. © Copyright 2021 Benjamin Benschneider All Rights Reserved. Third party image use may be arranged by contacting Benjamin Benschneider. bbenschneider@comcast.net

LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, LOMA LINDA, CALIFORNIA, NBBJ, MCCARTHY CONSTRUCTION, ARUP, STANTEC, JTEC

Bed Towers: Since the hospital’s existing facility could not be renovated to meet the updated seismic requirements for acute patient care, we recommended the decommissioned bed tower be repurposed for administrative and clinical-support functions that did not require the same stringent requirements.

Patient Room: The new bed tower can flex in acuity to accommodate complex scenarios such as pandemics and mass casualty events, and features unique structural elements that help guard against earthquakes.

open core, icu, patient room
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Seismic Considerations: An innovative structural system with special expansion joints between buildings allows each to move independently—up to 42 inches—during a seismic event.

Increased Utilization: To make better use of real estate within the existing hospital, we performed an analysis that identified underutilized office space that could be repurposed for clinical functions.

Shifts in the healthcare market over the past several years mean that traditional long-term master plans are often rendered obsolete by changing conditions. But a new approach to master planning—one that frames and maps all the variables that impact a healthcare system's real estate footprint and enables them to pivot when needed—allows organizations to plan intelligently for the future. Here, we offer adaptable guidelines to assess a healthcare system’s needs and establish a roadmap with strategies for a range of possible scenarios. First, increase efficiency of existing space; second, decide how and where to distribute capital; third, weigh need and urgency; fourth, determine when building is the only option; and lastly, anticipate change.

The Next Gen Master Plan: How More Adaptable Planning Can Drive Success in a Rapidly Changing Market

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