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Making connections
CFCC has gradually been adding new services since
its November opening, starting with c-section deliveries only and just recently beginning to take patients
for vaginal delivery (finally allowing for full use of the
LDRP rooms). As of this writing, the facility is not yet
accepting patients who arrive in labor. Martin calls the
rolling-out process "slow to be safe."
In the end, the facility provides a contiguous connection of patient rooms, the fetal intervention suite,
support services, and NICU (housed adjacent to CFCC
in the connected Children's Hospital). In the event that
the mother is seriously ill, she can be cared for at the
University Hospital right across the parking lot.
"Many of the other programs we saw are relying on
multiple facilities," Nichols says. "So they may have a
center, but in reality, the birth is happening somewhere
else, or they're taking them over to the pediatric OR
for the procedure, or taking the baby back to the NICU
or somewhere else. For a lot of different reasons,
Colorado was able to pull the best of all of these things
together into a collocated program." HCD
Kristin D. Zeit is editor-in-chief of Healthcare Design. She
can be reached at kzeit@vendomegrp.com.

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Completion date: September 2012
Owner: Children's Hospital Colorado
Total area: 27,000 sq. ft. (Colorado Fetal Care
Center)

Architecture: ZGF Architects LLP (design
architect), H+L Architecture (architect of record)

Interior design: ZGF Architects LLP
Engineering: Cator Ruma & Associates (MEP),
S.A. Miro Inc. (structural)

Construction: Phipps/McCarthy, a joint venture
of McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. and GH Phipps
Construction Cos.
AV equipment/electronics/software: Philips, GE
Healthcare, Stryker, Parks Medical Electronics,
Bourhinger, Arjo Inc., Microsoft, PDI
Carpet/flooring: Carmel Stone Imports, Shaw
Contract Group, Lonseal, Pental
Ceiling/wall systems: USG, Torzo Sustainable
Surfaces, Stone Source, Skyline Design, Lumicor,
Luxe + Natura
Doors/locks/hardware: Marshfield & Navy
Islands, Schlage, Ingersoll Rand
Fabric/textiles: Architex, Steelcase, ArcCom,
Paul Brayton, Pollack, Kravet, Momentum,
Carnegie, Duralee
Furniture-seating/casegoods: Nurture, Stylex,
Coalesse, HBF Westwood, Cabot Wrenn, David
Edward, Greenplay, Brayton International,
Bernhardt Design
Handrails/wall guards: Acrovyn
Headwalls/booms: Architectural Arts (patient
headwalls), Maquet Inc. (anesthesia boom and
monitor bank)
Lighting: Targetti, Lightolier, Flos, Zumbtobel,
Axis, Skytron, Fusion (lighted mirror)
Signage: Arthouse Design (consultant), Urban
Fabrication (manufacturer)
Surfaces-solid/other: Pental, Oceanside
Glasstile, Samsung Chemical, Corian, Wilsonart
Paint: Benjamin Moore

One of the biggest steps
the facility took to offer
extra sensitivity was the
construction of a separate
entrance, so CFCC patients
don't have to enter through
the main hospital. "If you're
pregnant and you know
you have a baby with a
potentially fatal illness,
to walk into a children's
hospital, it's a difficult
situation," says Martin.
Adds Nichols: "A pediatric
lobby is very focused on
kids. And that can be pretty
overwhelming if you're a
high-risk mom with a lot
of anxieties about what's
going on."

COURTESY OF ZGF ARCHITECTS; © STEPHEN CRIDLAND

From a construction standpoint, the intervention
suite's ambitions created a timing challenge, because
planning for inclusion of the latest technology and
equipment creates a lot of uncertainty. Doug Mangers, project director, McCarthy Building Cos. (St.
Louis), explains: "You don't go and look at 20 of these,
choose the one you like best, and then duplicate it.
You're trying to do something quite extraordinary as far
as what's happening in that room, and nobody wants
to shortchange the physical space and create any sort
of limitation."
With all the various team members weighing in-
Crombleholme, the designers, the owner-"It just led
to delay through the design," Mangers says. "So it's
hold up, hold up, hold up-OK, let's go. Meeting our
completion date was particularly difficult, because we
waited until the very end to get the last of that technology and everyone's great ideas incorporated. And we
did that. Everyone really came together to make that
happen." Because the East Tower was constructed
under an integrated project delivery contract, the team
had additional incentive to complete everything on
time and on budget.

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