Washington Hospital Healthcare System (WHHS) engaged Ratcliff to provide Planning, Design, Pre-Construction and Construction Administration services for its Morris Hyman Critical Care Pavilion, originally designed by another firm several years earlier. A structurally base isolated acute care facility adjacent to the existing Main Hospital, the Pavilion represented the second of a multi-phased hospital replacement plan, and is a 223,000 square-foot, four-story building containing a new Emergency Department, adult ICU/CCU, step-down inpatient beds, and space for growth. 

Ratcliff worked with client stakeholders to validate current operations and medical equipment needs and modified the design for both cost considerations and technological advances that had taken place since the original concept was developed. Spaces inside and between buildings were reconsidered in response to evolving priorities for how the building should respond to the needs of patients and public.

Design services include new linkages between buildings, a revised main entrance lobby, a new loading dock expansion carefully knit between structures, re-organization within the Emergency Department, and the addition of exterior garden space for ICU patients. The interior finishes palette was updated, and exterior canopies were reimagined. Site design modifications addressed pedestrian circulation, vehicular parking and circulation, and evolving storm water criteria.