Design process begins for new Jamestown Hospital

The architects hired to design a new hospital spent two days in Jamestown last week in the first of what will be a series of visits and discussions over the next several months.

Designing a new hospital is not just sitting down and drawing a building. Architect Rick Dahl, of the St. Paul, Minn., firm of BWBR Architects, said a hospital has to be uniquely designed to fit not only the staff and patient needs, but the site, the community and future health care requirements. He said this part of the design process is fundamental and means months of meetings and discussions.

Dahl said the process starts with the “big picture,” eventually getting down to smaller and smaller details.

“We’ll have a pretty good direction for building, siting and relating it all to I-94 after this visit,” Dahl said Tuesday.

Read more in Monday's Sun

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