Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center Opens a 200,000-square-foot Patient Tower
Perkins&Will announced the completion of the Friese Family Tower at the Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center, marking a new chapter in the Tarzana Reimagined Project.
The new five-story, 200,000-square-foot patient facility opened its doors for patients living in the San Fernando Valley on October 1.
The tower was designed to meet Silver LEED energy efficiency certification and includes energy-efficient lighting and controls, low water usage throughout the landscaping, a heat recovery chiller to use waste heat for air conditioning,150 private rooms, specialized cardiovascular, critical care, and progressive care units, an expanded emergency department to accommodate twice as many patients, a pharmacy with a pneumatic tubing system, a pediatric unit with a playroom, an adolescent patient room, and visitor waiting rooms on each floor of the new facility with sleeper sofas and recliners in all patient rooms.
The design does not include a boiler.
Other features include a focus on calmness and comfort with a central healing garden, cool blue tones, a green interior, art crafted by local artists, and an abstracted curved petal design.
Perkins&Will acted as the design architect for the project, and McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., served as the contractor.
Construction is underway for the next phase of the Tarzana Reimaged project to open a renovated new diagnostic and treatment (D+T) building and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
