Greeley Hospital: Bringing Care Where It’s Never Been

The 23-acre UCHealth Greeley Hospital campus is comprised of a hospital and ambulatory medical center with three primary goals:

1. Create a community connection
2. Maintain a cohesive brand
3. Promote a healthy lifestyle

The growing communities of Greeley and Weld County lacked local access to state-of-the-art medical care. This lack of access required community members to travel a minimum of 33 miles for specialty services and treatments. UCHealth recognized the growing need and began to plan the new hospital and ambulatory care center in 2016. The challenge: Determining which specialty care services were 1. in highest demand and 2. most beneficial to their community.

State-of-the-Art Care

BSA, a leading healthcare architecture firm, collaborated with UCHealth by utilizing custom hospital planning and design strategies. To ensure efficient hospital system design, the project implemented prototypical room types to ensure optimal utilization for the community. This also provided integrated healthcare solutions that maintained consistency while optimizing healthcare facility maintenance. The design team looked for areas of improvement while keeping the system as a whole in mind.

Maintain a Cohesive Brand

Careful thought was put into how to connect to the community with the built environment while maintaining the iconic form of the UCHealth brand. The design team studied forms and an aesthetic story that could reinforce a sense of place to ensure that the UCHealth Greeley Hospital had brand recognition with local roots.

The hospital is a 4-story facility with 50-beds designed to expand to 150 beds. Even more, the campus acts as a gateway into Greeley and features a branded arch-shaped roof. The design maximizes revenue-generating space through a right-sized patient room and other efficiency metrics. Intensive and inpatient care, emergency, surgery, radiology, advanced cardiology, a birth center, as well as an in-house pharmacy services are included. Furthermore, the hospital connects to a 3-story ambulatory medical center that includes:

• Clinics
• Outpatient infusion
• Women’s imaging
• Physical therapy
• Pre-admission testing
• Administration

The clinics feature a “center stage” modular clinic design composed of 10-12 prototypical exam rooms centered on a multidisciplinary care team station.

Finally, the design uses form and materiality to reference the surrounding landscape and landmarks nestled up to the Rocky Mountains. The layout and features connect patients to nature to benefit from its physical and spiritual healing properties resulting in a holistic healing experience.

A Master Plan for Future Growth

Recognized as a best healthcare architecture firm, BSA developed a comprehensive campus master plan to evolve alongside UCHealth’s growth. This plan ensures the facility remains adaptable to emerging healthcare technologies, reinforcing BSA’s expertise in science and technology engineering and hospital renovation.

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