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“We are spending more of our time think-
ing about how the building environments
we create influence the health of the
people who are in them,” says Cameron
Shantz, Director. “In healthcare design,
we focus not only on the patients who are
convalescing there, but on the staff mem-
bers and families who visit, as well. It’s a
huge area that we spend more time focus-
ing on than we did as an industry some
years ago, when the predominant focus
was strictly on functionality or efficiency.”
Specifically, Shantz points to the new Prov-
idence Care Hospital facility recently com-
pleted in Kingston, Ontario, as an example
of this line of architectural design in action.
This 625,000 SF facility has 270 beds, of
which 180 are for rehabilitation, 30 are for
forensic mental health, and 60 are for spe-
cialized mental health. The hospital was
designed to balance all of an individual’s
needs from private patient spaces, to qui-
“Every building we design, be it a hospital or a prison, should reflect the values
that define our society.” Robert Boraks, Director
