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EMORY HEALTHCARE
COURTS,
BROOKHAVEN, GA.

million Emory Healthcare Courts project
combines NBA team the Atlanta Hawks' dedicated practice facility with
provider Emory Healthcare's sports medicine program. A high-performance training facility led by the Peak Performance Project
(P3), a data-driven provider of advanced sports science technologies used to assess and train athletes, completes the facility. The building, finished in fall 2017 and designed by
HOK (St. Louis), is divided into two main spaces: the
north end that's used for the Hawks and the south
end that houses Emory Sports Medicine and P3.
The Hawks' space includes two full-size basketball courts and two half-courts for free
REFLECTING THE landscape
throw practice. It also features a player's
of its 10-acre prairie setting
lounge with commercial kitchen, spain Rapid City, S.D., and comcious weight training area with
plementing the architecture of
direct connection to outdoor
Regional Health's nearby main hospital
training turf and a lap pool, a
campus, the new Regional Health Orthopedic
cardio training space with
& Specialty Hospital and Sports Performance
direct views of the courts,
Institute is constructed of glass, stone, masonry, and
hydrotherapy, a nutrition
metal. The site, which opened in January, features
bar, and a spa-like private
outdoor gardens for dining, contemplation, and
locker room. There's also a sperespite that reinforce the connection to nature.
cialized athlete recovery suite that
Inside the 115,000-square-foot facility, a two-story
houses massage rooms, cryotherapy
lobby filled with natural light provides registration, lounge and retail spaces, and an
chambers, anti-gravity chairs, and flexible
adjacent bistro, which includes an outdoor dining area. Developed as a center for
rooms for yoga and relaxation. Meanwhile,
excellence in advanced orthopedics and sports medicine and designed by ESa
Emory Healthcare's public lobby offers views
(Earl Swensson Associates; Nashville, Tenn.), the Lean structure houses an
of the main practice courts, supporting Emory's
orthopedic surgery suite and an integrated physician specialty clinic. In
motto: "Go Where the Players Go." The lobby leads to
addition to licensed inpatient beds and supporting services, the first
physical therapy and the P3 training area on the first floor,
floor includes a physical therapy suite and treatment gym focused
while 28 exam rooms are located on the second floor, comon athlete training and employee wellness. The second floor
plete with imaging and radiology. The P3 space includes 3-D mohouses a pain clinic, wound care, weight management cention capture, force plates to measure joint stress, and on-site blood/
ter, a specialty clinic, and administration services. The
sweat testing to be used in analysis for nutritional deficits and markers.
building is designed for easy horizontal expansion of
A dedicated recovery area includes cryotherapy, sensory deprivation, and
surgery, inpatient beds, and pre- and post-procein-ground hydrotherapy.
dure areas.

REGIONAL HEALTH
ORTHOPEDIC &
SPECIALTY HOSPITAL AND
SPORTS PERFORMANCE
INSTITUTE,
RAPID CITY, S.D.

MAY 2019

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