Ocean Medical Center, Hirair & Anna Hovnanian Emergency Care Center

Project Details

We partnered with the client on a facility master plan to guide campus development through 2020. A three-story addition has enabled the Medical Center to relocate and significantly expand its emergency department, while adding shelled space for future diagnostic programs and a total of 108 new private patient rooms. The project adopts innovations from our design for Jersey Shore University Medical Center – for example, adding shared spaces to each inpatient “neighborhood” enables nurses to more efficiently manage patient care.

Building Facts

140,000 GSF

Hirair and Anna Hovnanian Emergency Care Center Exterior View — The material palette of the existing campus — brick, glass, metal, precast — is combined in new ways to create a more contemporary aesthetic for Ocean Medical Center’s Emergency Department.

Hirair and Anna Hovnanian Emergency Care Center Lobby — Clerestory windows provide ample daylight for the lobby, showcasing the natural stone and wood materials that set the stage for a design aesthetic inspired by nature.

Main lobby seating area — Seating area in the main lobby features soothing aqua multicolor walls with artwork and wave-shaped sconces. The layered walls are different shades like water waves of the ocean.

Hirair and Anna Hovnanian Emergency Care Center Nurse's station and patient rooms — Nurse stations in the Emergency Department feature colored accents in the ceiling to aid in wayfinding and carry aqua colors throughout the facility.

Hirair and Anna Hovnanian Emergency Care Center Nurse's Station — The pediatric nurse station is deeper inside the building, but benefits from sunlight coming through a skylight. The aqua wood flooring and punched up wave shape add fun to the area for children and their families.

Hirair and Anna Hovnanian Emergency Care Center Patient room — Pediatric rooms have clerestory windows bringing light into the room. A sleeper sofa is available for parents staying for long visits. The color palette in pediatric rooms is more playful for the children.

The three-story building features shelled space for patient rooms that has been designed to expand vertically to accommodate an additional three floors. This has created a new entry identity for the healthcare campus. A wing sail serves a wayfinding beacon at night with a light that can change colors.

Well-Being

The Behavior Health Unit

Windows in each treatment room allow daylight in and views to the outside which should reduce patient stress and incidents of violence. Dimmable corridor lighting outside patient rooms helps patients sleep better, thereby reducing anxiety and stress.

The rooms contain concealed patient headwalls for patient safety. Polycarbonate glazing was used in doors (half glass) of the private patient rooms to allow for visualization, with integral blinds for privacy as needed. T

he design includes a secure vestibule entrance into the unit where patients can be screened. Of the three exits from the unit, one private door connects the nurse station to the main ED.C.D.