Denver Health System

In 2013, Jensen + Partners completed a master plan for Denver Health, which comprises two million square feet of built space over several city blocks in the heart of Denver and eight satellite clinics, with a full range of healthcare uses targeted to the surrounding safety net population.

The first phase of the implementation includes the construction of a new administrative building at 601 Broadway, to consolidate and co-locate administrative services close to clinical operations, based on optimal adjacencies resulting in greater campus-wide operational efficiency.

601 Broadway is a nine-story building that incorporates activity-based workplace principles by providing spaces designed for different types of work, as well as a flexible project acceleration department. The building incorporates wellness features, including movement in the workplace, perimeter circulation throughout, work/lounge space, and a stairwell that is lighted, conditioned, and oriented to the hospital for active use.

It features levels of structured parking, a conference center, and retail amenities in the first floor, including a restaurant, copy center, and coffee shop.

The 601 Broadway planning process engaged liaisons from each department affected by the move, as well as physicians, clinical and administrative staff, and Denver Health executive leadership. In conjunction with the developer Trammell Crow, five building alternatives were presented to the Denver Health Board of Directors. An intensive period of data collection, space analysis and validation led to the development of a detailed space program incorporating open-concept floor layouts and shared spaces.

Denver Health’s outpatient services are fragmented across seven separate buildings on campus, forcing patients to navigate a disorienting and widely dispersed set of buildings to locate services. Jensen + Partners led a project to design a Comprehensive Ambulatory Care Center to consolidate services, enhance patient experience, and re-brand Denver Health’s visual image.

As part of this process, Jensen + Partners integrated master and strategic plan recommendations for Ambulatory care growth, established working assumptions for functional program, modelled volume projections, created capacity & demand models, generated new departmental space program, drew department level stacking and blocking diagrams, and planned phasing options for the construction of the Comprehensive Ambulatory Care Center.

The Comprehensive Ambulatory Care Center will create an opportunity to grow patient services on campus with an organized, integrated and efficient model of care. This accessible new building at the gateway of the campus, adjacent to convenient parking and other support services, will serve as a beautiful and highly functional public face for Denver Health.Denver Health’s outpatient services are fragmented across seven separate
buildings on campus, forcing patients to navigate a disorienting and widely
dispersed set of buildings to locate services. Jensen + Partners led a project
to design a Comprehensive Ambulatory Care Center to consolidate services,
enhance patient experience, and re-brand Denver Health’s visual image.

As part of this process, Jensen + Partners integrated master and strategic plan
recommendations for Ambulatory care growth, established working assumptions
for functional program, modelled volume projections, created capacity & demand
models, generated new departmental space program, drew department level
stacking and blocking diagrams, and planned phasing options for the construction
of the Comprehensive Ambulatory Care Center.

The Comprehensive Ambulatory Care Center will create an opportunity to grow
patient services on campus with an organized, integrated and efficient model
of care. This accessible new building at the gateway of the campus, adjacent
to convenient parking and other support services, will serve as a beautiful and
highly functional public face for Denver Health.

In 2013, Jensen + Partners completed a master plan for Denver Health, which comprises two million square feet of built space over several city blocks in the heart of Denver and eight satellite clinics, with a full range of healthcare uses targeted to the surrounding safety net population. The Master Plan included changes and improvements to the Campus roadway and landscape. Denver Health’s central campus circulation was not intuitive and challenging to navigate. Patient drop-offs were split and not connected, one-way city streets circled the perimeter, and there was a shortage of parking with existing lots in remote locations. Jensen + Partners coordinated with the City of Denver and City Utility Service to develop a plan to realign roadways to better support the Intergrated Facilities Master Plan. Phase one has been completed and Phase wo will be compleed in 2018.

Denver Health comprises two million square feet of built space over several city blocks in the heart of Denver, as well as eight satellite clinics and 151 school-based clinics, with a full range of healthcare uses targeted to the surrounding safety net population. The goal of the Master Facilities Plan is to provide critical alignment with a five-year strategic plan to position Denver Health successfully for growth in a rapidly evolving market.

Jensen + Partners led an Operational and Facilities Master Plan for Denver Health involving a series of highly interactive work sessions, leadership briefings, and individual meetings with key Denver Health staff, providers and other medical personnel, administrative & facilities staff, and real estate representatives as part of this comprehensive Lean and design approach.

The master plan focuses on creating a three-phase actionable implementation plan, starting with a support services building, a comprehensive ambulatory destination center on campus, the development of a new campus gateway, the consolidation of administration services close to prime core clinical services, and the re-purposing of existing historic buildings on campus. The final phase of the 20-year plan focuses on building a new trauma building, replacing and refurbishing existing deficient structures, and rendering a new behavioral health institute.

The master plan implementation is currently underway with the construction of the hospital support services building, planned for occupancy in 2017. Capital planning for the Comprehensive Ambulatory Care Center is also underway, and the center is slated to begin construction in 2017. The off-campus Pena Family Clinic is completed and providing service to the community.