Lauritzen Outpatient Center

The Nebraska Medical Center

Omaha, Nebraska

SIZE

165,000 sq. ft.

COST

$71.5 million

COMPLETION DATE

2016

SERVICES

Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Master Planning, Medical Planning

AWARDS

2017 Interior Design Excellence Award (IDEA), Healthcare, International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Great Plains Chapter

The Lauritzen Outpatient Center at The Nebraska Medical Center represents a major move forward in care provision for Omaha and integrates all surgical outpatient specialties under one roof. Anchored by 12 outpatient surgical suites, the building includes flexible clinic space with universal exam room layouts. The center will comprise almost 200,000 square feet of clinical space, and structured parking underneath the building.

In addition, it includes four radiological modalities as well as co-located orthopedic clinics and PT/ OT space. The layout is based on optimizing patient flow and reducing wait times through LEAN principles.

As the project is on an accelerated schedule, a 3P “Production, Preparation, Process” LEAN exercise sped up the design phases in order to meet a specific occupancy date. After developing seven shells and evaluating their suitability for the program, we conducted a three-day charrette with the entire group of stakeholders, including creating full scale room mockups, so that the plan was “set” with almost complete user buy in months earlier than in a traditional design process.