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Mahan Rykiel Associates, Inc. has a special interest and expertise in designing landscape spaces for therapeutic settings.  Our portfolio includes hospital gardens, green roofs- both extensive and intensive, memory support gardens, and a variety of gardens for senior living.  These gardens are designed with the assumption that contact with nature can be a restorative event, where patients, residents, staff, and families all benefit from the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors – even when that may only involve a window with a view.  Designing comfortable, familiar, and safe outdoor environments is not only an important quality of life element, current research now shows that medical outcomes can also improve in measurable ways.

Mahan Rykiel Associates offers thoughtful landscape design from master planning to site specific detailing. Sustainability, selection of appropriate materials, and responsible stewardship are fundamental to MRA’s design approach. With 15 LEED Accredited Professionals on our staff, we embrace the environmentally sound practices this process underscores - particularly in the healthcare environment. Please visit our website at www.mahanrykiel.com

Projects

• Anne Arundel Medical Center Healing Garden and Master Plan
  Annapolis, Maryland
• Baltimore/Washington Medical Center Healing Garden
  Annapolis, Maryland
• Calvert Memorial Hospital Healing Garden
  Prince Frederick, Maryland
• Chesterbrook Residences
  McLean, Virginia
• Collington CCRC Dementia Garden
  Mitchellville, MD
• Ginger Cove Health Center Garden
  Annapolis, Maryland
• The Heritage at Brentwood
  Brentwood, Tennessee
• Kennedy Krieger Institute Outpatient Facility Therapeutic Garden
  Baltimore, Maryland
• Mercy Medical Center Mary Catherine Bunting Center Roof Gardens
  Baltimore, Maryland
• Providence Hospital Healing Garden
  Washington D.C.
• Sibley Memorial Hospital Memorial Healing Garden
  Washington D.C.
• St. Luke’s Hospital Master Plan
  Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• UMMS Weinberg Building Interior
  Baltimore, Maryland
• Kennedy Krieger Institute Outpatient Center Therapeutic Garden
  Baltimore, Maryland
• Westminster Canterbury CCRC
  Virginia Beach, VA
  

MARSHALL ERDMAN & ASSOCIATES
Scott Ransom, CEO, President
Samantha Roffe, RLA, MALA, ASLA
sroffe@erdman.com

MSI DESIGN
462 Ludlow Alley
Columbus, Ohio 43215
P. (614) 621-2796
F. (614) 621-3604
www.msidesign.com

Jerry Smith, ASLA, LEED AP
Director of Healthcare and Sustainable Initiatives
jsmith@msidesign.com

Profile
MSI Design, a landscape architecture and planning firm with offices in Columbus, OH, Orlando, FL and Pasadena, CA, has been creating therapeutic environments and outdoor spaces that address the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs of its visitors since the firm’s inception in 1990. Now, with the emerging research supporting the benefits of nature and sustainable design on healthcare outcomes, MSI has launched a dedicated MSI Healthcare Studio to meet the growing awareness of these evidence-based design practices.

MSI Healthcare Studio provides seasoned leadership with broad-based experience and a focused approach in wellness and healing environments.
From wide-ranging master plans to highly detailed and health-sensitive therapy gardens, our design teams have led our clients to award winning design solutions for both new and existing facilities.

Along with the MSI’s other market areas of service – Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Planning, Hospitality and Entertainment – MSI Healthcare builds strong client relationships and community partnerships. Our expert contributions to national healthcare and sustainable design organizations place the MSI team as industry leaders at the top of the profession and provide our clients with the most advanced in research, design and best practices.

List of Relevant Projects

• Dublin Methodist Hospital
  Dublin, Ohio
• Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  Columbus, Ohio
• The Ohio State University Medical Center
  Columbus, Ohio
• Norma’s Garden, The Gathering Place
  Beachwood, Ohio
• Inniswood Children’s Garden
  Westerville, Ohio
• Franklin Park Conservatory Gardens
  Columbus, Ohio
• James Clarkson Environmental Discovery Center
  White Lake, Michigan (far right photo).
  MSI was awarded the 2008 National Honor Award for Excellence in Design for this project.
  
• Leu Gardens
  Orlando, Florida
• McKean Arboretum
  Winter Park, Florida

THE OFFICE OF JAMES BURNETT
www.ojb.com

NATHAN PERKINS, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Coordinator
School of Landscape Architecture, University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
Telephone: 519.824.4120 ext. 8758
nperkins@uoguelph.ca

References

Barnhart, S. and N. H. Perkins (1996). "Behavioural and Environmental Setting Preferences among Staff and Patients." Homewood Health Centre, Guelph, Ontario.

Barnhart, S. (1996). "Integrating Clinical Program Objectives into a Comprehensive Master Plan for a Psychiatric Hospital."

Barnhart, S., N. H. Perkins, and J. FitzSimons (1998). "Behavioural and Setting Preferences at a Psychiatric Hospital." Landscape and Urban Planning, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-4, pp. 147-157.

Burcher, L. (1999). "A Process for the Design of Outdoor Health Care Environments."

England, K. and N. H. Perkins (1999). "Designing Therapeutic Settings for Psychiatric Hospitals." Symposium on Designing Healing Environments, Portland, OR.

Ferguson, C. and N. H. Perkins (1998). "Hotel Services, Hospitals and Health Care: A Management Model for a Psychiatric Facility." XVI Congress of the World Association of Social Psychiatry, Vancouver, B.C.

Larsen, L. and N. H. Perkins (1992). "An Assessment of Schizophrenic Patients' Visual Preferences for Outdoor Environments." Proceedings, Fourth North American Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Madison, WI.

Yeats, T. "Exploring the Experiential Qualities of Landscape Settings at a Psychiatric Hospital."

You can find more references by Dr. Perkins on the Resources page.

PMA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS LTD.
224 Wallace Avenue, Suite 321
Toronto ON, Canada M6H 1V7
tel 416-239-9818
fax 417-239-1310
www.pmalarch.ca

Profile

Formed in 1982, PMA is a Toronto-based firm with extensive experience providing complete planning and design services. Known for its professional integrity, creativity and technical knowledge, PMA maintains a manageable size to ensure that these attributes remain at their highest levels. The success of the firm lies in the diverse and complementary skills, expertise, strengths and personalities of the principals and staff.

Central to PMA’s design philosophy is a belief that the entire life cycle of the site should be taken into account. Successful plant establishment, weathering and site ecology are harnessed as design elements to create landscape experiences that are sustainable because they are dynamic and flexible in the long term. 
Maintenance considerations are included at every step of our planning and design process. We design functional, beautiful, and manageable landscapes. We pride ourselves on our attention to detail and insistence that our designs get built well. The elegance of our built work is the result of our thorough understanding of the methods and materials of landscape construction and excellent working relationships with builders and craftspeople.
PMA offers professional planning and design expertise combined with construction management and contract administration in the areas of:

Projects

Valleyview Long Term Care Facility
St. Thomas, ON
http://www.elginconnects.ca/portal/?w=StThomasValleyviewSeniorsHome

Allendale Care Facility
Milton, ON
http://www.halton.ca/scs/seniors/ltc/allendale.htm

Elgin Manor Seniors Residence
St. Thomas, ON

Hillsdale Manor Seniors Residence (pictured above)
Oshawa, ON

James St. Bonham Residence
Toronto, ON

Parkview Home
Stouffville, ON
http://www.parkviewhome.ca/

Lambton Meadowview
Villa Petrolia, ON
http://www.lambtononline.com/long-term_care

Meadow Croft Place
Toronto, ON

Nygh Seniors Health Centre
Toronto, ON
http://www.nygh.on.ca/programs/long-term.html

Brampton Civic Hospital
Brampton, ON
http://www.williamoslerhc.on.ca/body.cfm?id=58

Stone Church Family Health Centre
Hamilton, ON
http://stonechurchclinic.ca/

Leamington Mennonite Home
Leamington, ON

PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING ASSOCIATES, INC.
2900 E. Grand River Avenue
Howell, Michigan 48843
Phone: 517-546-8583
Fax: 517-546-8973
Contact: Jeffrey T. Smith, RLA, LEED A.P.
jsmith@peainc.com
www.peainc.com

Profile
Professional Engineering Associates, Inc. (PEA) is a multidisciplinary design firm providing landscape architecture, civil engineering, and surveying services in Michigan and throughout the United States on a broad range of projects. PEA was established in Southeast Michigan in 1947 and has professionals registered to practice in over twenty states.
Within the healthcare sector, PEA has provided design services that range from therapeutic garden design to site planning, campus planning, drainage studies, site plan approval and services related to achieving LEED certification. PEA works directly with healthcare providers or with architecture firms as part of a design team. PEA creates functionally successful therapeutic gardens that have elegance and beauty by using their creativity and technical expertise to synthesize complex program requirements with the art of the natural environment.

Projects
Garden of Healing and Renewal
McLaren Healthcare Village
Independence Township, MI

Botsford Cancer Center
Farmington Hills, MI

McLaren Cancer Center
Independence Township, MI

St. Pauls Memorial Garden
Brighton, MI

Beaumont Health Center
Royal Oak, MI

Beaumont Medical Center
Lake Orion, MI

Detroit Medical Center Ð Hutzel WomenÕs Hospital
Detroit, MI

Huron Medical Center
Bad Axe, MI

Oakwood- South Shore Medical Center
Trenton, MI

Dearborn Medical Center
Dearborn, MI

Hillsdale Community Health Center
Hillsdale, MI

QUATREFOIL, INC.
Brian Bainnson, Principal
404 SE 80th Avenue
Portland, OR 97215
Telephone: 503.256.8955
Fax: 503.256.3460
brian@quatrefoilinc.net
www.quatrefoilinc.net

Profile
Quatrefoil Inc. provides personalized Landscape Architectural and design services for all types of site design, from residential to institutional. Design is client driven to merge program, technical and lifestyle needs.

Projects

• Legacy Burn Center Garden
  Portland, OR, USA
  (Legacy Emanuel Hospital Oregon Burn Center Therapeutic garden) www.quatrefoilinc.net/burn.htm
• Legacy Behavioral Health Therapy Garden
  Legacy Emanuel Hospital & Health Center Psychiatric garden
  Portland, OR, USA
• Portland Memory Garden (Alzheimer’s garden)
  Portland, OR, USA
  www.centerofdesign.org
  www.quatrefoilinc.net/memory.htm
• Providence Mt. Angel Healing Garden, Providence Benedictine Nursing Center
  Mt. Angel, OR, USA

QUINN DESIGN ASSOCIATES INC.
Landscape Architecture and Urban Design
www.quinn-associates.com

MARTHA M. TYSON
Design Consulting
www.healinglandscape.com

SEAM STUDIO
Topher Delaney, Principal
600 Illinois Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Phone: 415.621.9899
Fax: 415.626.8998
www.tdelaney.com

Projects
Avon Comprehensive Breast Center, San Francisco General Hospital
Carolyn S. Stolman Healing Garden
San Francisco, CA

Beth Israel Hospital, Jonathan Parker Abramson Garden "A Safe Harbor"
New York, NY

Children's Hospital and Health Center, Leichtag Family Healing Garden
San Diego, CA

Fox Creek Park Wellness Garden/Sanctuary, Contra Costa Centre
Pleasant Hill, CA

Marin General Hospital, Marin Cancer Institute
Meditation Garden
Greenbrae, CA

Kenneth Norris Cancer Center, University of Southern California
The Sherri Hinderstein Memorial Garden
Los Angeles, CA

SPROUT ROY-FISHER ASSOCIATES, INC.
Principal: Connie Roy-Fisher
Mailing address: PO Box 420, Jupiter, FL 33468
Physical location: 18761 131st Trail North, Jupiter, FL 33478
Phone: (561) 747-3462
Fax: (561) 747-0281
www.roy-fisher.com
email: design@roy-fisher.com

Profile

SPROUT Roy-Fisher Associates, Inc. is dedicated to evidence-based design and sustainability. Connie Roy-Fisher, ASLA founded our design studio in 1983 and has a history of achievement and recognition for her work on public and private projects. Connie frequently lectures on evidence-based healthcare design and sustainable landscape techniques for South Florida. The firm works as both prime consultant and as part of an integrated interdisciplinary team offering expert advice on built projects of distinction.

SPROUT believes that a restorative environment is crafted by a careful arrangement of a variety of sensory, psychological and natural stimuli in an effort to:
• Bring the visitor to the moment by connecting to something outside the body (a sensory experience or connection with nature)
• Bring the visitor to an awareness of an environment bigger than “the problem” to regain a sense of perspective and control (psychological stimuli)
SPROUT strives to incorporate features that are the right choice considering each unique patient population through evidence based design. Landscapes for Healing incorporate features shown to be beneficial through past research and are tested in post occupancy evaluations. SPROUT collaborates with caregivers, patients, families and integrated design teams to design supportive, safe, and accessible outdoor spaces

Projects relevant to the TLN - For each project, please provide as much information as you can so that we can provide that information when we cross-list the projects in the Healthcare Gardens section of the website. In general, this is what we try to list:

Hanley Center Master Plan, West Palm Beach, Florida: The Hanley Center is a not for profit drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. A 12-step garden associated with the wellness center focuses on themes and metaphors associated with the recovery process.The Master Plan incorporates walking paths with sensory plant material, a walking meditation garden associated with a chapel, labyrinth, ropes course, horticultural therapy areas, butterfly garden and outdoor patios.

Hanley Resource Center, West Palm Beach Florida: The Hanley Resource Center is the hub of community outreach for the Hanley Center. The Resource Center holds classes for families and corporations. Several outdoor spaces accommodate a variety of group sizes in a relaxed setting, surrounded by lush plantings. The spaces were carefully detailed to provide shelter and shade including moveable furniture, leafy tree canopies and a trellis with vines for shade and privacy. A large garden area adjacent to a popular inspirational book store encourages reading outdoors, small staff gatherings, and private meetings with a mentor in a restorative setting. A smaller area directly adjacent to classrooms provides a space for students to refresh during break. The site landscaping mitigates traffic noise and bermed plantings of native, xeric and low maintenance plant material distract from a nearby busy road.

Jupiter Medical Center Emergency Room, Jupiter, Florida: Jupiter Medical Center is an acute care hospital. This garden provides a comfortable outdoor alternative to the indoor waiting room. Lush tropical plantings provide a variety of colors and textures, a bubbling fountain provides a pleasant distraction from the stresses associated with acute care. Visitors are protected from sun and rain by a canopy cover, breezes are supplemented by outdoor fans and vending machines provide the opportunity for refreshment.

Jupiter Medical Center Pavilion Master Plan, Jupiter, FL
A series of connected gardens at this 120-bed nursing and rehabilitation facility emphasizes four therapeutic outcomes:
1) Sense of Control - Residents can choose whether to sit in the sun or shade, in groups or alone. Curved pathways unify the outdoor areas and allow residents to choose where and how far into the gardens they wish to explore. 2) Exposure to Nature - A bird garden, raised water garden, and plantings along a large pond provide wildlife habitat. A raised gazebo is oriented to feel the predominant southeast breezes. Eighty-percent of bedroom windows have views to a designed outdoor space for residents unable to venture outside. 3) Exercise - Paths encourage patients and staff to stroll or explore in their wheelchairs. Benches, fountains, and small sculptures provide subtle "goals" to reach. 4) Social Support - Spatial considerations for wheelchairs allow residents to meet outside with family and friends. Please visit www.roy-fisher.com to view a plan, pictures and an extensive post occupancy evaluation of this project.

Jupiter Medical Center Pavilion Butterfly Garden, Jupiter Florida:

The Pavilion Butterfly Garden was the first of a series of garden spaces developed at this Nursing Home facility. The butterfly garden featured a trellis, a variety plantings that attract butterflies and a fountain for residents to view from their indoor dining room.

Jupiter Medical Center Pavilion Pond Restoration, Jupiter, Florida:

This project at a Rehabilitation and Nursing Home Facility was funded by a local grant to improve water quality. The perimeter of the retention pond was planted with native plantings that provides habitat for waterfowl as well as screens an unattractive parking lot. A spray fountain cools an adjacent patio that is a favorite gathering place for residents to relax and enjoy the wildlife associated with the pond setting.

Jacqueline Fiske Healing Garden, Jupiter Medical Center Jupiter, Florida.
The idea for a healing garden began with the Director of the Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Center. She thought that if her patients could look at something other than blank walls, they would be more inclined to exercise. Through a program called Johnny Apple Seed, hospital staff and volunteers donated close to $20,000. Part of this seed money enabled the development of preliminary plans. The plans were mounted on a sign to request further funding for the garden. In 2002, Guy Fiske visited the hospital with his wife, Jacqueline, saw the sign and offered to fund the garden as a Valentine’s gift to her. She accepted. Through the Fiskes’ generosity, not only was the garden construction funded, but an escrow account was established for long term maintenance.
The goal of the Jacqueline Fiske Healing Garden is to foster the physical, mental and spiritual restoration of patients, visitors and staff by distracting from the medical setting. A series of garden spaces connected by paths create a tranquil and sheltered environment. The garden can be seen from inside the Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Center exercise room and offers an alternative outdoor route between hospital units. Seating areas for visitors, patients and staff seamlessly incorporate elements that can be used in rehabilitation therapy.
The garden has several special features. The central focus is a calming pool of water that can be touched and provides a soothing sound. A sculpture of a pair of rising herons by a local artist provides a healing metaphor in the fountain. A transplanted 40’ live oak gives a sense of permanency as well as shade. A large arbor provides a sheltered meeting place and a shaded transition area from indoors. The Jacqueline Fiske Healing Garden received an award of excellence from the Florida Association of Landscape Architects. Please visit our website www.roy-fisher.com for a plan, pictures and to review a post occupancy evaluation of this project.

Jacqueline Fiske Garden of Hope, Jupiter, Florida.
The Garden of Hope is cradled between a meditative lake and cancer center views. A series of spaces accommodate support group gatherings and provide private spaces for quiet reflection amidst a calm lake setting. A Seven-Point Vessica Pattern represents the interconnection of all life and provides a gathering place for meditative exercises. An adjacent shaded patio accommodates outdoor yoga and group meetings. A lush variety of plants creates a sensory environment that attracts wildlife and provides a positive distraction. SPROUT Roy-Fisher Associates facilitated focus groups with patients and staff to identify garden elements that support the emotional needs of individuals with cancer and incorporate the garden into support group programming. Patients preferred two spiritual archetypal landscapes - the promontory (extension) and the harbor (embracing) - which informed the design. Please visit our website www.roy-fisher.com for pictures and a plan of this project.

Mollie Wilmot Center, West Palm Beach, Florida

A welcoming environment that is attractive and intriguing to children complements this medical facility’s state-funded program for underserved children. Topiary wildlife hangs from trees for patients on gurneys to observe on their arrival. Colorful fish in waves of native grasses greet children from the parking lot. A proposed canopy and shade structure over a play area will provide protection from the sun and rain. A future bubble garden will let play elements "float" to children in wheelchairs in an area that also attracts butterflies with specialized plantings. Raised vegetable gardens will be used in diabetes education classes.
Views from the adjacent lobby attract patients, visitors, and staff outside, alleviating an overcrowded waiting room. A stained glass window provides a nature setting in a quiet room overlooking a trickling water feature in the garden. The connection with nature provides a pleasant distraction from treatments. Please visit our website www.roy-fisher.com for pictures and a plan of this project.

VERTECHS DESIGN, INC.
www.vertechsdesign.com

VISIONSCAPES LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS, INC.
Virginia T. Burt, OALA, ASLA- Landscape Architect and Consultant
RR#3, 5318 Cedar Springs Road
Campbellville, Ontario
Canada L0P 1B0
Phone: 888.339.3031
Fax: 905.335.2606
www.spirithealinggardens.com

Profile
Consulting services for participatory design programming using Process Facilitation and Large Group Intervention techniques (specifically Open Space Technology), Garden Needs Reports, Therapeutic Garden assessments, supportive horticultural therapy design services, master planning and detailed design of therapeutic gardens through working drawings and contract administration.

Projects
Allendale Long Term Care Facility
Milton, Ontario, Canada
Therapeutic Garden Courtyards

Burlington Labyrinth Project
Central Park, Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Homewood Health Centre
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
The Homewood Labyrinth (first psychiatric hospital in Canada to create a permanent outdoor labyrinth for clients, their families, and staff)

Interval House Shelter for Abused Women
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

John Gordon Home AIDS Hospice Healing Garden
London, Ontario, Canada

Post Inn Village Long Term Care Facility
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Two therapeutic garden courtyards, one that includes multi-generational day care

Shalom Village Seniors Facility
Hamilton, Ontari, Canada
Gussie Sobel Healing Garden and other therapeutic garden areas

Versa Care-Brantford Long Term Care Facility
Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Therapeutic Garden Assessment

JOANNE WESTPHAL, Ph.D., M.D., ASLA
Professor, Landscape Architecture, Michigan State University
www.spdc.msu.edu

ZARETSKY AND ASSOCIATES, INC.
www.zaretskyassociates.com

ZIMMERMAN ARCHITECTURAL STUDIOS, INC.
Rosheen Styczinski, FASLA, Director of Landscape Architecture
7707 Harwood Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53213
Phone: 414.918.1475
Fax: 414.454.2714
Rosheen.Styczinski@zastudios.com
www.zastudios.com

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Profile
Zimmerman is a multi-disciplined architecture/engineering firm that was formed in 1906. For 100 years, we have held as part of our corporate culture the belief that the best projects are achieved when we are closest to our clients, fully entrenched in their values and vision.

Zimmerman’s staff of 120 professionals specializes in the following building design services: architecture; structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and civil engineering; landscape architecture; interior design; sustainable design and planning.

The Landscape Architecture Studio offers design services for healthcare campus master planning, healing and therapeutic gardens, and memorial and tribute gardens. These services compliment our strong healthcare architectural projects.

Projects

• Columbus Community Hospital
  Wellness Walkway
  Columbus, WI
  
• Don and Marilyn Anderson Hospice Care Center
  Landscape and healing gardens
  Madison, WI
  
• Franciscan Villa, South Milwaukee, WI
  Facility master plan, therapeutic garden for dementia care unit, and healing garden and walkway.
• Holy Family Memorial Medical Center, Manitowoc, WI
  Healing Garden and landscape
• Jewish Home and Care Center, Milwaukee, WI
  Rooftop healing garden
• Prairie Home Children’s Memorial Garden, Waukesha, WI
  Memorial and healing garden for families recovering from the loss of a child
• St. Agnes Hospital, Fond du Lac, WI
  Memorial entry garden and Angel of Hope garden
• St. Ann’s Home, Milwaukee, WI
  Healing gardens for senior residents (Styczinski)
• St. Lukes Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
  Healing garden courtyard (Styczinski)
• St. Rita’s Oncology Center, Lima, OH
  Healing and meditative gardens
• Zilber Family Hospice Center, Milwaukee, WI
  Landscape and healing gardens