Rooftop Healing Garden at Houston Methodist Hospital’s Centennial Tower

Houston Methodist is currently in the process of developing the Centennial Tower, a 26-story patient care tower. The 14th floor will feature an outdoor rooftop Healing Garden complete with trees and landscaping to provide patients, family and health care workers with an outdoor respite to relax and recharge.

The CHN, Houston Methodist and a Landscape Architecture Design class at Texas A&M University collaborated to develop evidence-based conceptual designs for the healing garden. Elements of the winning design will be featured in the new garden, slated to open 2028.

As we move into the next three-year cycle at the CHN, the impact of our work is expected to go beyond sharing practice and policy implications with the public; we are expecting to make an impact on health and environmental sustainability behaviors, behaviors that will not only improve our health but also preserve and enhance our environment, our green space, and our most valuable medicine, nature.