Healthcare

Providing Solutions for Evolving Healthcare Practices and Technologies


The design of healthcare facilities focuses on ever-changing, extraordinary challenges and opportunities where new practices and technologies can be introduced daily. A recognized leader in the field of healthcare architecture since the 1960s, RATCLIFF embraces these potentials for exploration and evolution, successfully completing projects for healthcare clients in diverse organizations and locations.

RATCLIFF’s group of specialists is skilled and experienced in healthcare operations, planning and programming, and looks to involve all client players in tangible roles in making durable decisions that meet strategic goals. Partnering as leaders of a team, we work with our clients to seek out and deliver the most advantageous solutions. Our healthcare architectural teams focus on the exacting standards and environments required for healthcare services in an era of genetically-based, minimally-invasive, and wireless technology delivery approaches. Simultaneously, RATCLIFF strives to provide sensitive healing environments that are attentive to patient comfort and well being.

Services

  • Master Planning
  • Healthcare Architecture
  • Operational Analysis/Process Mapping
  • Medical & Strategic Facility Planning
  • Equipment Analysis & Budgeting
  • Interior Design

Leaders

Steven Steinberg
Thomas Patterson
Bill Wong
Terrie Kurrasch
Peter Tsugawa
Gary Jereczek
John Sealander
Larry Bongort
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Steven Steinberg, AIA

Principal – Business Development

B. Architecture, Pratt Institute, 1974
B.A., History & Art History, Hofstra University, 1971

Licensed Architect, California, #C-9929, 1978
Licensed Architect, Arizona, #29652, 1995

(510) 899-6422
ssteinberg@ratcliffarch.com

Thomas Patterson, AIA

Principal – Senior Project Manager

Master of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1978
Bachelor of Arts, History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, 1974

Licensed Architect, California, #C-19663, 1988

(510) 899-6458
tpatterson@ratcliffarch.com

Bill Wong, AIA, CSI, CCS, LEED® AP

Associate Principal – Technical

B. Architecture, Case Western Reserve University, 1970
Graduate Work in Architecture, University of Oregon, 1972

Licensed Architect, California, #C-13917, 1983

(510) 899-6410
bwong@ratcliffarch.com

Terrie Kurrasch, FACHE, Assoc. AIA

Senior Associate – Planning Specialist

Masters of Public Health/Health Care Administration, University of California, Berkeley 1980
B.S. Recreation, California State University, Hayward, 1969

(510) 899-6425
tkurrasch@ratcliffarch.com

Peter Tsugawa, AIA

Associate Principal – Technical

B.A. Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1983

Licensed Architect, California, #C-20953, 1989

(510) 899-6439
ptsugawa@ratcliffarch.com

Gary Jereczek

Senior Associate – Senior Project Manager

M. Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1981
B.A. Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1979

Licensed Architect, California, #C-18272, 1987

(510) 899-6468
gjereczek@ratcliffarch.com

John Sealander, AIA, ACHA, NCARB, LEED® AP

Architect – Senior Project Manager

M. Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1979
B.A., Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1969

Licensed Architect, California, #C-11033, 1980

(510) 899-6413
jsealander@ratcliffarch.com

Larry Bongort, AIA, ASHE, ACHA

Architect - Senior Healthcare Architect

MA, BS, Architecture. BA, German. University of Michigan, 1975
 
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, (DAAD) Fellow, Postgraduate Studies, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 1975-1976

 
Licensed Architect, California #C-14407, 1983. Michigan, #1301026225, 1979
 
(510) 899-6442
lbongort@ratcliffarch.com
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Client List

  • Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
  • Alameda County Medical Center: Highland Hospital
  • Alameda County Medical Center: John George Psychiatric Inpatient Pavilion
  • American Cancer Society
  • Breast Cancer Fund
  • Children’s Hospital Oakland
  • Community Medical Centers
  • Daughters of Charity: Seton Medical Center
  • Department of General Services Contra Costa County
  • Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals
  • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan: East Bay Service Area
  • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan: Diablo & Napa Service Area
  • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan: San Francisco Marin & Sonoma Service Area
  • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan: South Bay Service Area
  • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan: Greater Sacramento Service Area
  • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan: Central California Service Area
  • John Muir Health: John Muir Medical Center Concord Campus
  • John Muir Health: John Muir Medical Center Walnut Creek Campus
  • Madrona Medical Center
  • Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
  • Modesto Memorial Medical Center
  • Naval Hospital Oakland
  • North Bay Health System: North Bay Medical Center
  • Recovery Inn Menlo Park
  • Saint Francis Memorial Hospital
  • Santa Clara County: San Jose Regional Medical Center
  • San Leandro Memorial Hospital
  • San Mateo County: San Mateo County Medical Center
  • Sisters of Mercy Sisters of Providence
  • Sonoma Valley Hospital
  • Sunrise Senior Living
  • Sutter Health: Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
  • Sutter Health: Eden Medical Center
  • Sutter Health: San Leandro Hospital formerly San Leandro Memorial Hospital
  • Sutter Health: Mills Peninsula Medical Center
  • US Department of Veterans Affairs - Palo Alto
  • Park & Livermore
  • US Department of Veterans Affairs: Yountville Veterans Home
  • University of California: San Francisco Parnassus Campus
  • University of California: Irvine
  • University of the Pacific School of Dentistry
  • ValleyCare Health System: ValleyCare - Livermore
  • ValleyCare Health System: ValleyCare - Pleasanton
  • All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)