Hope Plaza Outpatient Cancer Center Tour

Hope Plaza harnesses nature and views to create a compassionate, patient-centric approach while delivering the highest standard of cancer care through a flexible, multidisciplinary model with the latest technology. The facility is organized to meet patient needs, with centralized elevators to minimize travel distances to proximate services. The program includes infusion bays, exam clinics, imaging rooms, phlebotomy and venous access device services, laboratory, pharmacy and patient amenity areas. The planning is organized to provide natural daylight and views to the spaces where people stay the longest; on the clinic floors, collaborative staff workrooms and on the infusion floors, infusion bays ring the floor plan.

Many thanks to City of Hope for sharing this transformative project, and to the teams led by DPR and CO Architects in association with EwingCole.

Tour Leaders:

Gina Chang, AIA, EDAC, has repeatedly led large teams to achieve ambitious results. A principal at Los Angeles-based CO Architects, Gina has accelerated healing through design for more than 20 years for clients such as Palomar Health, UC San Diego Health, Kaiser Permanente and UCI Health. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and is EDAC certified.

Michael Lehman, AIA is the West Coast Director of EwingCole’s Healthcare Practice and leads projects through all phases of development. He has a passion for Collaborative Team Building, Lean Process, and Integrated Project Delivery techniques. He is most proud of using Lean-IPD methods to deliver one of Sacramento’s most significant healthcare projects.

Michael believes that complex healthcare projects are successful only when the team finds ways to work together cooperatively and together find ways to eliminate waste in the design and construction process.

Over the past 30 years, Michael has designed Healthcare facilities for the nation’s most prestigious healthcare providers. Michael is a member of the Lean Construction Institute (LCI) and actively participates in the Los Angeles/Orange County Community of Practice.

Approved AIA CES: 2 LU|HSW

Learning Objectives

1. Experience the impact of biophilic design elements, such as visual and non visual connections to nature.

2. Analyze how planning can improve the patient and staff experience, through access to views, minimized travel distances and on stage off stage approach

3. Identify comprehensive outpatient services of a NCI accredited cancer center.

4. Recognize technical challenges of connecting an OSHPD 3 building to an OSHPD 1 building and a non OSHPD building.