海角视频

Wake Forest University School of Medicine – Charlotte Campus

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

海角视频 enabled the establishment of Wake Forest University School of Medicine鈥檚 (WFUSM) new regional medical school campus as the Academic Core of Advocate Health, within a new innovation district 鈥� The Pearl.

WFUSM and Advocate enlisted 海角视频鈥檚 strategy and operating model design advisors to develop design briefs that define the vision, goals, spatial needs, and organizing concepts for two signature buildings anchoring a new innovation district called 鈥淭he Pearl.鈥�

Our team鈥檚 design briefs for healthcare education and simulation facilities provided the future design team with a vision statement and guiding principles; detailed spatial programs and adjacency diagrams to suggest an ideal layout for the buildings, and next steps and questions to be addressed in the next phase of work.

We conducted detailed one-on-one interviews with more than 20 key leaders as well as wider focus groups with faculty and staff.聽

We facilitated consensus among the varied stakeholder groups to allow the co-creation of a clear vision and roadmap for the project.聽

Our experts gave careful consideration to aspects like the staff and student experience and an innovative approach to pedagogy meeting community needs.

Challenge

The first facility is a new Center for Innovation in Health and Learning (now officially Howard R. Levine Center for Education), which will be the regional campus for the MD program along with the Carolinas College of Health Sciences, and Advocate Health headquarters. The second is a multi-tenant research and collaboration building which includes the exclusive North American headquarters for IRCAD, a robust, robotics-focused research and training institute for the world鈥檚 finest surgeons.

A key challenge was to align all the partners around a common spatial and facilities vision for the facilities. Our experts would need to bring together leaders from Atrium Health (now Advocate Health), Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Carolinas College of Health Sciences and Wake Forest University to conduct a series of interviews and workshops on the future of healthcare education, as well as ongoing work with joint planning and steering groups.

Solution

We conducted detailed one-on-one interviews with more than 20 key stakeholders and used the findings from these engagements to inform the development of a shared project vision statement and guiding principles that will guide a next-generation medical education, simulation, and research, as part of the larger innovation district. The goals and needs were then translated into space programs and organizational concepts for future facilities.

Our experts鈥� process of 鈥渄eep listening鈥� to the needs and desires of each of the stakeholders allowed us to build a co-created outcome that will meet all of their requirements for the new buildings. We were also able to gather and incorporate all the learnings from the recent development of Wake Forest鈥檚 existing medical school within a similar innovation district, called Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. We also gave careful consideration to aspects like the staff and student experience and approach to pedagogy.

The process required agility to deal with uncertainty and innovation for various aspects of the project: a new innovation district with complementary projects being planned in parallel; a new partnership between Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health; a new partnership with IRCAD; and a second campus that can draw from resources on the existing campus that must also be in and of its community.

Throughout, we engaged a variety of stakeholders, modeled many different scenarios in terms of enrollment, headcount, curriculum, and space. We explored models for community activation and industry partnerships and built consensus in a shared vision and roadmap to get there.

Value

Our team鈥檚 design briefs for healthcare education and simulation facilities provided the future design team with a vision statement and guiding principles; detailed spatial programs and adjacency diagrams to suggest an ideal layout for the buildings, and next steps and questions to be addressed in the next phase of work. This delivered a design brief that enabled architects to begin the design process fully informed about the optimum functionality of the site.

The new facilities will enable collaborations across entities and programs while amplifying Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Advocate Health鈥檚 collective impact in Charlotte 鈥� supporting the flourishing of healthcare for all in the region.