Description
Mississauga is a growing city in Ontario, on the outskirts of Toronto. This project for Trillium Health Centre required the addition of 135 beds and a learning centre on the Mississauga Hospital campus. The extension was to incorporate novel intensive acute-care models, including the provision of procedures right at the bedside. Designed as a prototype within the 17,000 square metre-building, the unit includes 36 beds, sub-divided into 12-bed clusters. Each cluster is served by a decentralized team station.
The unit comprises both one- or two-bed rooms, to reflect varied insurance coverage restrictions. The two-bed patient room exudes spaciousness and provides privacy like a single room – along with unobstructed views from the angled bed location to a replanted treed zone outdoors. Families have space to relax and visit, and staff have bedside work space while enjoying shortened walking distances from satellite team stations. The room, perhaps due to the angled bed position, does not feel institutional. The vestibule proved a valuable addition. It facilitates bed and stretcher movement as well as access to each bed. This has decreased staff injury and the care team can easily view the patient’s face as they walk past. Although the three-piece washroom is shared by two patients, it can be accessed by them individually. Several-one bedrooms exist as well. Two two-bed rooms can be coupled together as well as divided by a glass slider, thus providing both privacy and flexibility in urgent situations.
Drawings
Site Plan, scale 1:20,000
Typical floor plan, scale 1:500
Floor plan of a typical patient’s room, scale 1:100
Photos
Exterior view from the street
Interior view of a patient’s room
Originally published in: Wolfgang Sunder, Julia Moellmann, Oliver Zeise, Lukas Adrian Jurk, The Patient Room, Birkhäuser, 2020.