![]() "The temporary kitchen - consisting of 11 trailers - was designed to provide a year of off-site production and patient tray service. "In order to keep providing food to patients, the kitchen project was delayed a year to free up the former helipad, which was relocated on top of the new six-story tower, to install a 6,000-square-foot temporary kitchen," Spelman says. Mobile trailers were lined up on a concrete and asphalt lot behind the hospital, which had previously served as the hospital's helipad. In order to provide continuous foodservice during construction, space in the dining area doubled as an eating area and a temporary servery. The total kitchen now occupies about 12,000 more square feet than the old facility. ![]() The new servery is the size of the old servery and dining area. ![]() The kitchen and servery renovation followed the main lobby project. The logistics of designing the foodservice facility were challenging for the architects, the staff led by Julie Spelman, MBA, RD, director of culinary and nutrition services at Banner Thunderbird, and the project's foodservice design consultant, Richard Dieli, FCSI, principal of Dieli Murawka Howe, who was brought in to the project by NTD. "The café is designed to be a destination restaurant to attract staff and visitors as well as local residents," Combs says. The lobby's natural wood panels, terrazzo floors, glass tiles and stainless steel accents extend into the cafe. The dining facilities are an important part of the lobby's atmosphere, providing energy to the lobby spaces."Ĭafé 5555 sits on the lower level of the main north building of the hospital and is visible from the spacious, airy lobby where mobiles and other artwork are suspended from the ceiling. "We wanted this medical center's highly visible public spaces to resemble those of a high-level resort, which is also a healing environment where people come to feel good. "The north lobby and south tower were designed to elevate the level of care for patients and elevate the overall experience for patients, staff and visitors," says Russ Combs, senior associate and senior project designer at NTD Architecture in Phoenix. A 2,000-square-foot physicians' lounge was also built as part of the project. Completed in August 2010, the foodservice facility features a 12,000-square-foot, full-service kitchen that made possible a new room service system for all patients, catering for medical center events, galley services for more than 35 areas in the hospital, vending services and the ability to support Café 5555's 3,500-square-foot servery and a 5,000-square-foot dining room with 250 seats (125 inside 125 outside). The project also included the addition of a 23,000-square-foot kitchen and cafeteria. In addition to the new patient tower, the project involved the massive renovation and expansion of many existing spaces, including a new main lobby, chapel, gift shop, patient/family library and operating rooms, as well as a spacious, high-tech heart and vascular center and a second inpatient unit for children. When fully occupied, the tower will boost the number of patient beds at the hospital to 563. Thunderbird, approved a $290 million expansion project that included the construction of a 200-bed patient tower. To ensure that the hospital would be able to meet the needs of a growing population in the booming northwest metropolitan Phoenix area, Banner Health, the nonprofit organization that owns and operates Banner In addition to increasing demand for inpatient medical care from the community, Banner Thunderbird is experiencing a growing number of outpatients, visitors and staff at the 32-acre campus. The 27-year-old Banner Thunderbird Medical Center in Glendale, Ariz., is one of the fastest-growing hospitals in the northwest valley, having grown from just 75 beds in 1983 to more than 500 today. ![]()
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