Patient Tower Exemplifies Modern Hospital Design

As part of a system-wide transformational plan, Summa Health decided to create a new facility to expand their services and turned to Hasenstab Architects because of our expertise in modern hospital design. In collaboration with Perspectus Architecture, Hasenstab Architects designed the seven-story, 343,000-square-foot patient tower on Summa’s Akron campus.

An integral part of the new hospital design included a grand, two-story lobby spanning the building’s ground level and first floors, creating a prominent front door to the new patient tower. Beyond the lobby, the ground floor is home to a 19,000 square foot Breast Center that consolidates both diagnostic, screening and pre-/post-surgical services for Women’s Health. The breast center features exam, mammography, stereotactic, and ultrasound rooms. In addition, the center houses a state-of-the-art MRI that produces higher image quality in half the time of a normal MRI. A conference center with movable partitions for space reconfiguration is also conveniently located on this main level.

The building’s first floor expands Summa’s surgical services in the new Same Day Surgery Center which has 67 same-day surgery prep and recovery rooms. Two of the operating rooms were specifically designed for da Vinci Surgical System robots, which provide robotic-assisted surgery options. Each operating room has a dedicated control room adjacent to the operating room where the surgeons control the robot and caregivers can observe and train.