Nursing And Rehabilitation Center - Garden
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07100 Sassari SS, Italy
The aim of this project is to create a multipurpose nursing facility. The Contest is divided in three different Contests: the first Contest is about residential, refreshment and socialization spaces; the second is about nursing and health advice spaces; the third is about exterior spaces, with some part of them to be destined to rehabilitation paths.
In this Contest, the garden is faced. The aim of the Contest is to obtain a garden that is functional to our patients and that can be used as a meeting place. The garden will be the first place for welcoming our patients.
Inside the garden should also be placed rehabilitation paths, in particular for some kind of pathologies, as Alzhaimer.
With this Contest we want to obtain design solutions fort the Center that stimulate the employees to learn good practices through the communication of:
– A calm and familiar environment;
– A sympathetic and efficient performance;
-A sense of Safety, Trust, Innovation and Science.
The garden will require:
– A pool at the entrance, with some kind of water games, as little falls. It will also be adorned with lacustrine plants;
– Some space to be dedicated to an educational vegetable garden, to be used by patients;
– Green paths for rehabilitation purposes;
– Rehabilitation paths for Alzhaimer;
– A landscaping that is deeply seasonal, with the presence of colorful deciduous plants, flowers and aromatic plants.
The soil is calcareous, but you can consider the supply of other types of terrain or alteration of the substratum. The users of the garden will be both auto-sufficient and partially auto-sufficient people.
The building is expected to have:
-An Integrated Center for elderly people
-A global Clinical Center for Rehabilitation
-Global Diurnal Rehabilitation
-Integrated Diurnal Center
-Medical Clinics
This Center is inside a broader multi purpose structure that is near the Monserrato urban park. So, the entire building is at the entrance of the city of Sassari, 200 metres from the SS 131 junction “Viale Italia”.
The area is well served by public transportation and so easy to reach using principal roads. In addition, the area has commercial services (also a supermarket in the near mall), wide public car parks, and direct entrance to the Monserrato park. Nearby there are also the Superior Court and the Veterinary Medicine Department.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
The structure overlooks to a 5.300 square meters courtyard, that is intended to be destined part to car parks, but mostly to communal garden and rehabilitation paths.
The building has four floors:
1) A 1.187 square meters basement;
2) A 1.187 square meters ground floor;
3) A 900 square meters first floor;
4) A 736 square meters attic.
These are the specialized branches and the minimum number of clinics needed:
1) Cardiology;
2) Diabetology;
3) Physiokinesitherapy;
4) Geriatric Ward;
5) Sports Medicine;
6) Neurology;
7) Orthopedics;
8) Pulmonology;
9) Rheumatology.
Giving the fact that this facility is multi-purpose, it is divided in three independent lots, each of them has its own external entry and there is the possibility to make the lots communicating each other.
The lots are:
a) Healthcare lot, that will be in the basement, where the outpatient and rehabilitation facilities will be placed.
b) Residential lot, that will include the ground floor and the first floor, where the socialization and assistance facilities will be placed.
c) Offices lot, that will be in the attic.
a. Complete Center for Elderly people.
The residential lot that will be placed on the ground and first floor is destined to elderly people. The maximum feasible number of beds is 58 (in single rooms or double rooms, as long as they have private toilet), distributes in two different modules.
Communal rooms, that will be placed in this lot and in the basement, are:
– An area in which there will be educational and entertainment activities;
– A Reception Area with a waiting room;
– A changing room for the employees;
– Communal Toilets;
– An area for the Personal Care (hairstylist, beauty center etc..), that will be put in the basement;
– A gym and an area for entertaining activities, that will be put in the basement as well.
The communal spaces need to be designed in a flexible and operational way, using the right furniture and equipment, bearing in mind the multi purpose being of the structure.
b. Specialized Medical Clinics
They may also be used to provide services to external customers, in order to exploit the economies of scale.
The clinics will be provided with telephones and wifi. The furniture and the equipment should be in comply with legal standards.
We forecast to host about 100 patients per day.
c. Rehabilitation Center
It will be placed in the basement. The basement has broad windows and a direct access to the internal courtyard, where an elevator and an external staircase will be placed in order to let the customers reach the main entrance. There will also be an internal entrance with an internal stair and an internal elevator to reach upper floors.
In the Rehabilitation Center there will be:
a) A gym with movable walls to divide the space if needed;
b) Changing rooms for the gym, different for gender;
c) Changing rooms for the employees, different for gender;
d) An area destined to individual therapy;
e) A room destined to employee training;
f) A room for social dynamic activities;
g) An Entrance Hall with a Reception Desk and a dedicated office;
h) Toilets for the external customers, one for each gender;
i) An area where 6 therapy boxes will be placed;
j) Clinics;
k) A Waiting Room.
The area should be provided with an air renewal system and a climate control system.
The main aim of the Center is to take our disable customers to fully rehabilitation and to prevent additional disablement.
The disabilities that will be take care of in the Center are:
1) Disabilities related to the central nervous system;
2) Disabilities resulting from traumatic or chronic osteoarticular and mioarticular pathologies or osteoporosis;
3) Disabilities resulting from surgery and severe burns;
4) Disabilities resulting from rheumatic inflammation pathologies;
In particular:
a) Brawn issues (Rehabilitation, Training for the ambulation restoration etc…)
b) Balance and coordination issues (Kinesitherapy, postural re-education etc…)
c) Speech issues (Training for the aphasia, training for dysarthria etc…)
d) Neural issues (Neuropsychological therapy etc…)
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
1) A clinic for medical examination;
a) Physiokinesitherapy
b) Cardiology
c) Pulmonology
d) Rheumatology
e) Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
f) Neurology
g) Geriatrics
h) Psychology and Speech Therapy
2) Two gyms: the first dedicated to motoric rehabilitation and the second dedicated to group exercise;
3) An area dedicated to dynamic group activities;
4) 6 clinic boxes dedicated to health advice and physical therapy;
In the Rehabilitation Center we forecast about 160 patients per day.
d. Social diurnal rehabilitation Center for people with severe disabilities
The socialization activities will take place in the ground floor. One of the main aims of the Center is to allow our customers to socialize and communicate with each other in order to feel fully integrated.
Social activities:
a) Assistance to our patients in their everyday activities;
b) Educational activities in order let our patients achieve or maintain relational capabilities;
c) Socialization and entertainment activities;
d) Meals distribution.
Health services:
a) Medical services tailored on our patients’ needs;
b) Rehabilitation;
We forecast about 20 patients per day in the Diurnal rehabilitation Center
e. Diurnal Integrated Center
It will be placed on the ground floor. Our employees will take care of our not self-sufficient patients, through socialization activities, entertaining activities, a canteen service and nursing assistance.
Here we need to guarantee: everyday activities assistance to our patience, rehabilitation activities, educational activities, therapies, socialization and entertaining activities, aided toilet, a canteen service.
We forecast about 20 patients per day in the Diurnal rehabilitation Center