Rise of the Modern Hospital by Jeanne Kisacky

Author:Jeanne Kisacky
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780822981619
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

The scale of a hospital also influenced the type of facility suited to its practice. Medium-size general hospitals occupied some of the most spatially integrated, vertically organized hospital facilities of the time. The Fifth Avenue Hospital (ten stories) and the Beth Israel Hospital in New York City (fourteen stories), Hurley Hospital in Flint, Michigan (ten stories), and Passavant Hospital in Chicago (thirteen stories) all occupied centralized and spatially integrated single buildings. Other medium-size general hospitals, like the Los Angeles County General Hospital and the Jewish Hospital in Saint Louis) occupied a single structure, but with extensive wings and setbacks.

Instead of creating a singular centralized structure, some hospital designs (like the Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, the Cleveland City Hospital, or the Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh) divided their high-rise facilities into discrete functional units—such as medical services, wards, administration, and nurse housing—that were housed in separate structures. Each component, though part of the larger building, was sized, shaped, and located according to its own spatial requirements and to facilitate the delivery of medical care. Medical service buildings were often lower buildings, but with a central location for maximum connections to other services. Patient rooms were often in the higher buildings, maximizing light and air to the inpatients on upper floors.

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