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Clients partner with HKS to improve the health and vitality of the communities they serve — every community, every project, every time.

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To Understand Nurse Burnout, Listen to the Nurses

Research into Nurse Burnout analyzes over 15,000 online responses to better understand the pressure points and issues.

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How HKS and Perkins&Will Are Partnering to Design Country’s Largest Greenfield Pediatric Hospital

The two design powerhouses had worked together on the expansion of Children’s Health’s Plano campus when the request for proposal went out for the new main campus, so they decided to partner to make one of the eight proposals submitted for the project.

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Designing for the Underrepresented – Adolescents and Young Adult Oncology Patients

Annually, more than one million adolescents and young adults (AYAs) are diagnosed with cancer across the globe, resulting in four hundred thousand AYAs losing their life to cancer each year.

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New Design Trends in Behavioral Health

Now more than ever, the world is calling for compassionate care toward patients struggling with mental health conditions. Architectural interventions are key to this movement.

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Simulation Design to Support Nursing Students’ Mental Health

In response to the 2023 State of Nursing survey by nursing education and advocacy group Nurse.org, 81 percent of nurses surveyed said they have experienced burn out and that their mental health has suffered during the past year.

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Healing Loneliness: Six Ways to Design for Social Connection and Community

In a time of hyper-connection and communication, recent surveys find that approximately half of U.S. adults are experiencing loneliness and lacking connection.

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New Patient Tower Signals Hope for Richmond Children and Families

No matter how you approach downtown Richmond, VA, your eye will catch a glimpse of something special. Standing tall among the historic structures of the city center is a shimmering building clad with glass, a bright yellow ribbon and colorful fins: the new Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU (CHoR) Children’s Tower.

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Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU Children’s Tower

A Hospital Tower that Offers Children and Families a Chance to Heal, Discover, and Grow

Architecture
Experiential Branding
Interior Design
Planning & urban design
Research
sustainable design

Allegheny Health Network Wexford Hospital

High-Quality, Value-Driven Health Care Closer to Home

Architecture
Interior Design
Structural Engineering
Sustainable Design

Almoosa Specialist Hospital Bed Tower Expansion

Majestic Saudi Arabian Hospital Tower Is Beacon of Health Care Excellence

Architecture
Interior Design

Rusk State Hospital Expansion

Creating a New Standard in Patient-Centered Behavioral Health

Architecture

Royal Liverpool University Hospital

A New Landmark Health Facility

Architecture
Interior Design

Kaiser Permanente Caton Hill Medical Center

A Total Health Environment

Architecture
Planning & Urban Design
Structural Engineering
Interior Design

Portfolio

Our portfolio of award-winning designs is broad and deep, and includes research hospitals, academic medical centers, pediatric facilities, mental health and cancer care facilities.

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