Three of Shepley Bulfinch’s current pediatric healthcare clients were among those named in US News and World Report’s annual survey of the Best Children’s Hospitals in the US. The survey ranks the top 30 pediatric facilities in each of ten specialty areas.

Children’s Hospital Boston, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, were recognized in a number of categories. Children’s Hospital Boston, a client since 1914, was one of just ten nationwide to be ranked in the top 30 in all ten specialties. Shepley’s new bed tower for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin opened in March, and construction is scheduled to begin in 2010 on a new physicians’ office building ...[more]

MILWAUKEE, WI – The signs are up, the art is hung, and the ribbon has been cut to mark the opening today of the 12-story, 425,000 sf patient tower tower expansion for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. Children’s CFO Tim Birkenstock calls the new tower “an essential step needed to keep pace with our patient service demands” for one of the country’s busiest pediatric medical centers, with more than 25,000 inpatient admissions each year.

The new facility, which began construction in 2005, features a larger pediatric intensive care unit and an expanded Herma Heart Center, as well as patient rooms integrated with the latest medical technologies. Responding to the important role ...[more]

by William Mead

Building Places for Children

Bill Mead discusses aspects of designing healing environments for young patients and their families, part of Shepley’s long-standing leadership in the delivery of patient-centered care.

by Deborah Johansen

Children’s Hospital Boston: From the Mock-up Room to Reality

As part of the design of the Berthiaume Family South building, Shepley created a full-scale mock-up of an operating room and an ICU as a design conceptualization tool. This article first appeared in the March 2003 issue of Healthcare Design.