Emergency Department Renovation
Lenox Hill Hospital
New York, NY
Existing Size: 7,850 SF
Renovated Size: 15,750 SF
In doubling the size of the emergency department at Lenox Hill Hospital, daSILVA Architects designed a facility that actively reflects the hospital’s changing needs and the expanding role of the emergency department in a modern hospital.
An open plan department was created, in which every space is easily converted into essential operating modes; intake nurses are no longer confined to their desks; waiting rooms are open and inviting yet private at the same time; and patients are treated within moments of their arrival. New technologies have been embraced and implemented at every level of the new emergency department. Specialty treatment rooms were designed for pediatrics, orthopedics, obstetrics/gynecology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology and radiology. Discrete controls have been placed throughout the department for disaster preparedness, infection control, and secure treatment. Separate entrances for walk-ins and ambulance arrival facilitate triage, testing, and treatment. A new elevator clears congestion and reduces possible contamination from the main hospital.
This project required multi-phase and multi-level construction, as well as a sensitivity to patients, doctors, and nurses. Enlarging the department into three distinct buildings on multiple planes in a constrained midtown Manhattan city block, required highly detailed planning.