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.

Leaders

Gary M. Burk, AIA, NCARB
Principal - Strategies, Healthcare Practice Area

M. Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1970
B. Architecture, Texas Tech University, 1968

Licensed Architect, California, #C-27364, 1998
Licensed Architect, Texas, #4930, 1973

(510) 899-6428

gburk@ratcliffarch.com

D. Roger Hay
Principal - Design, Healthcare Practice Area

M. Architecture, University of Wisconsin, 1985
M. Urban Design, University of Wisconsin, 1985
B.S. Architecture, Kent State University, 1982

(510) 899-6405

rhay@ratcliffarch.com

Linda Mahle, AIA
Associate Principal - Operations, Healthcare Practice Area

B. Architecture, with honors, University of Minnesota, 1975

Licensed Architect, California, #C-10258, 1979

(510) 899-6473

lmahle@ratcliffarch.com

Bill Wong, AIA, CSI, CCS, LEEDŽ
Principal - Technical, Healthcare Practice Area

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 L. Kurrasch, FACHE
Senior Associate - Planning Specialist, Healthcare Practice Area

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

Thomas C. Patterson, AIA
Associate Principal - Senior Project Manager, Healthcare Practice Area

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

Gary Jereczek
Senior Associate - Senior Project Manager, Healthcare Practice Area

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

Lynn Drover, CID, IIDA
Interior Designer - Interiors Specialist, Healthcare Practice Area

B. Arts, Interior Design, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, 1977
Certificate in Healthcare Design, Canada College

Certified Interior Designer, California, #2715, 1987
National Council for Interior Design Qualifications, #006789

(510) 899-6489

ldrover@ratcliffarch.com

Services

Master Planning

Healthcare Architecture

Operational Analysis/Process Mapping

Medical & Strategic Facility Planning

Equipment Analysis & Budgeting

Interior Design

Client List

Alameda Healthcare District: Alameda Hospital

Alameda County Medical Center: Highland Hospital

Alameda County Medical Center: John George Psychiatric Inpatient Pavilion

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

Sunrise Senior Living

Sutter Health: Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (all campuses)

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: VA Palo Alto Health Care System (Palo Alto, Menlo 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