Designers/Designers and Consultants Directory

Jack is co-editor and contributing writer to the recently published book “Re-creating Neighborhoods for Successful Aging.” Other book contributions include “Complimentary and Alternative Medicine for Older Adults” and “Interaction by Design.” As a contributing writer for national publications, he has written numerous articles on connecting people with nature. Jack actively works to promote the design and development of Therapeutic Gardens and landscapes through speaking engagements, audio-conferences and contributing to the publication of technical papers. He is an adjunct faculty member at Temple University teaching “Healing Garden Design” and “Introduction to Horticultural Therapy”. He is also an instructor at the Chicago Botanic Garden School of Healthcare Garden Design Certificate Program. Jack is founder and former chair of the American Society of Landscape Architects Committee on Healthcare and Therapeutic Design Professional Practice Network.

Projects

Alzheimer’s Gardens

• Forrest Side Residence, Washington, DC - Alzheimer’s Garden
• Heron Point Continue Care Retirement Community, Chestertown, MD – Labyrinth and Alzheimer’s Courtyard Garden
• Virtua Healthcare, Berlin, NJ - Alzheimer’s Courtyard Garden
• VA Medical Home, Wilkes Barre, PA - Alzheimer’s Courtyard Garden
• Brandermill Woods Healthcare Center, Midlothian, VA - Alzheimer’s Courtyard Garden and Assisted Living Courtyard Garden

Hospital Gardens

• Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA – Neuro ICU Rooftop Healing Garden Concept Plan
• CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ – Meditation Garden and Labyrinth Garden
• Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood, NJ - Rooftop Healing Garden

Continue Care Retirement Community Gardens

• Meadow Lakes Continued Care Retirement Community, Hightstown, NJ - Alzheimer’s Garden, Walking Path Master Plan, Wellness Trail, Atrium Garden
• Medford Leas Continued Care Retirement Community, Medford, NJ - Landscape Master Plan, “Back Porch” Garden, Assisted Living Garden, Courtyard Garden, Recreation Courtyard Garden
• The Atrium at Navesink Harbor Continue Care Retirement Community, Red Bank, NJ – Riverside Garden and Interior Courtyard Garden
• Stonebridge Continuing Care Retirement Community, Montgomery, NJ - Assisted Living Courtyard Garden
• Cathedral Village Continue Care Retirement, Philadelphia, PA – Butterfly Garden and Alzheimer’s Courtyard Garden
• The Villages Retirement Community, Rochester, NY – Landscape Master

Adult Day Care Gardens

• Adult Enrichment Services of Wilkes, Wilkesboro, NC – Adult Day Therapeutic Garden
• Genesis PACE Center, Philadelphia, PA – Adult Day Therapeutic Courtyard Garden
• Redhook Senior Center, Brooklyn, NY – Courtyard Garden
• Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA - Courtyard Garden and Landscape Plan

Skilled Nursing Gardens

• St. John Neumann Nursing Home, Philadelphia - Adult Social Day Care Alzheimer’s (pictured above, center and right)
• Garden and Sensory Courtyard Garden
• St. Francis Country House, Darby, PA – Therapeutic Courtyard Garden (pictured above, left)
• Puerto Nuevo, San Juan, Puerto Rico – Landscape Master Plan, Therapeutic and Alzheimer’s Gardens

Church Gardens

• St. Martin-in-the-Field Episcopal Church, Lumberton, NJ - Labyrinth and Meditation Garden

Rehabilitation Programs Gardens

• Clinton House, Manhattan, NY - Therapeutic Rooftop Container Garden

Health related research by professors Hewitt and Nassar examine historical and cultural influences of medicine on the designed environment, design and planning for epidemics, and economic rationale for sustainable health care settings.

Please see HewittNassar Studio’s philosophy, awards, exhibition, publications and published articles at www.hewittnassar.com/projects_viewer.html.

Projects

• Roger Huntington Skilled Nursing Facility: Master Planning
  Greenville South Carolina
• Spartanberg Hospital, Pelham Village Healthy Community Master Planning
• Healthy Community Master Planning
  Simpsonville, South Carolina
• Sullivan Center “Green” Community Health Care Clinic: Master Planning (pictured above center)
  Clemson, South Carolina
• Healthy and Sustainable Neighborhood Design Guidelines
  Greenville, South Carolina
• Sustainable Healthy Village Community Master Planning
  Rock Hill, North Carolina:
• University of California Botanical Garden Wayfinding Assessment (pictured above left)
• Rosetta, Egypt Healthy City Urban Design Master Plan
• Luxor, Egypt: Healthy City Urban Design Master Plan (pictured above right)

Projects

• Del Webb’s Sun City Retirement Community, Huntley, IL: Butterfly Garden
• Edward Hospital, Naperville, IL: Therapeutic Water Garden (pictured above, left)
• Friendship Village CCRC, Schaumburg, IL: Roger Smith Memorial Garden (pictured above, center)
• Linden Oaks Hospital, Naperville, IL: Healing Garden, Therapeutic Play Garden, Sensory Garden, and Reading Garden (pictured above, right)
• Marianjoy Hospital, Wheaton, IL: Enabling & Rehabilitation Garden
• Porter Hills Retirement Community, Grand Rapids, MI: Alzheimers Garden, Kitchen Garden, Harmony Garden, and Woodland Garden
• Riverside Hospital, Kankakee, IL: Spiritual Healing Garden
• Tabor Hills Retirement Facility, Naperville, IL: Alzheimers/Dementia Garden
• The Tillers Senior Healthcare Residence, Oswego, IL: Therapeutic Garden

I began with life with a mixed European heritage of musicians, sculptors', artists and scientists, an unconventional Liberal Arts education and a bohemian family who loved travel and looking at things. I then trained in theatre design, ran my own delicatessen and trained lengthily as a Transpersonal Psychologist and Psychotherapist and had this as my principle career for twelve years, working with deeply psychologically damaged people. Many people cite 'life changing events' when changing career drastically and I am no exception. In 1996 said event, like a river bursting its banks, altered my course into garden design and now, eleven years later, I have found my metier.

Project list coming soon

Projects

• Brookings Medical Center
  Brookings, Oregon
  Healing garden and staff garden
• Sacred Heart Medical Center
  University District, Eugene, Oregon
  Entrance Plaza, Rehabilitation/Therapeutic Garden, Chapel Garden
• Sky Lakes Medical Center (pictured center)
  Klamath Falls, Oregon
  Rooftop Healing Garden, Lobby Courtyard Garden, Staff Terrace
  See also http://mep-pc.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/sky_lakes_medical_center.pdf
  
• Columbia Memorial Hospital
  Astoria, Oregon
• Willamette Falls Hospital
  Oregon City, Oregon
  Entry Plaza and Water Feature
• Willamette Valley Hospital
  McMinnville, Oregon
• Providence Milwaukie Hospital (pictured at left) – Healing Garden
  Milwaukie, Oregon
  Healing Track and Oncology Center Garden
• Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center – Master Plan
  Corvallis, Oregon
• Good Samaritan Regional M.C. – Campus Healing Garden
  Corvallis, Oregon
• Good Samaritan Regional M.C. – West Tower Addition
  Corvallis, Oregon
• Good Samaritan Regional Cancer Center
  Corvallis, Oregon

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

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 (designed in collaboration with Visionscapes Landscape Architects)
• Inniswood Children's Garden
  Westerville, Ohio

• 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.

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

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. PEA was honored by the Michigan Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architecture as the “Landscape Architecture Firm of the Year” in 2009.

Projects

• Beaumont Health Center
  Royal Oak, MI
• Beaumont Medical Center
  Lake Orion, MI
  
• Botsford Cancer Center
  Farmington Hills, MI
• Dearborn Medical Center
  Dearborn, MI
• Detroit Medical Center, Hutzel Women's Hospital
  Detroit, MI
• Great Lakes Cancer Center
  Independence Township, MI
• Hillsdale Community Health Center
  Hillsdale, MI
• Huron Medical Center
  Bad Axe, MI
• McLaren Cancer Center
  Independence Township, MI
• McLaren Healthcare Village
  Garden of Healing and Renewal
  Independence Township, MI
• Oakwood- South Shore Medical Center
  Trenton, MI
• St. Pauls Memorial Garden
  Brighton, MI

Articles about the Garden of Healing and Renewal

• Smith, Jeffrey (2009). “A Healing Garden for the Community.” Medical Construction & Design, November/December.
• Smith, Jeffrey (2009). “The Garden of Healing and Renewal – A Public Healing Garden.” The Michigan Landscape, September, Volume 52 , No. 9.
• Angell, Richard, Jeffrey Smith, and Lauren Williams (2010). “The Garden of Healing and Renewal, From Concept to Implementation – Bringing a Therapeutic Garden to Life.” The Michigan Landscape, January/February, Volume 53, No 1.

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

• 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 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.

1. 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.
2. Exercise - Paths encourage patients and staff to stroll or explore in their wheelchairs. Benches, fountains, and small sculptures provide subtle "goals" to reach.
3. 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.

The founder, Jan Satterthwaite, ASLA, L.E.E.D., is an experienced public artist and award winning designer whose interest in landscape architecture has been a lifetime journey that first began with intuition and learning to read place. Later it was leavened by observing the landscape via world travel, freelance work in art as well as experience living with cancer. Her design philosophy is drawn from a dual sensibility—in aesthetics and evidence based design. It is the intersection of the intuitive design process and a sensitivity to individuals with special needs where she finds design can successfully influence environmental change and promote therapeutic health benefits. Having once been a cancer patient, her focus is on the human experience in the landscape, with consistent themes appearing in her design exploration—a profound engagement with site and a modernist faith in the ability of design to transform both site and human response.

Projects

• Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital
  Tacoma, WA, USA

More projects coming soon

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

Zaretsky and Associates, Inc. are dedicated to improving lives through creative and inspiring gardens and landscapes. We do this by creating gardens that are interactive, sensory, stimulating, calming, and memory-enhancing. Gardens heal the body and soul. We engage the visitor and inspire them to interact with the space, not just pass through it. Zaretsky and Associates offers design of residential, public and health-care gardens, labyrinth design, consultation, project management and installation nationally.

Projects

• Rochester General Hospital Woodward Healing Garden
  Rochester, NY
  See Zaretsky and Associates' website for info
  Entry gardens and an outdoor waiting area for relatives and friends of patients. Installation of the waiting area (a stone fence in the shape of a Nautilus) and management of the rest of the site work and installation.
• Rochester General Hospital
  Rochester, NY
  See Zaretsky and Associates' website for info
  Healing Garden in a central courtyard of the hospital.
• Cherry Ridge Assisted Living Center
  Webster, NY
  See Zaretsky and Associates' website for info
  Design and installation of Alzheimer’s garden for senior living facility.
• Kirkhaven Nursing Home
  Rochester, NY
  See Zaretsky and Associates' website for info
  Design and installation of a garden for an assisted living center, including a curved pergola, waterfall wall, entertainment space. Had to meet Preservation District parameters.
• Sharon’s Sensory Garden
  Mendon Ponds Park, Mendon, NY
  See Zaretsky and Associates' website for info
  Design and installation of a sensory garden with 175’ of raised gardens, waterfalls, and an herb garden. 75 varieties of fragrant plants; Braille plant identification plates; fully wheelchair and sight-impaired accessible.
• Shepherd’s Home
  Penfield, NY
  See Zaretsky and Associates' website for info
  Design and installation of healing gardens for a hospice.
• Strong National Museum of Play
  Rochester, NY
  See Zaretsky and Associates' website for info
  Design and installation of Dancing Wings Butterfly Conservatory.
• Crestwood Children’s Center
  Scottsville, NY
  Pro-bono design and installation of a garden for mentally impaired children and their parents.
• Daystar Treatment Center
  Pittsford, NY
  Pro-bono design for a daycare center for children with severe physical handicaps.
• Equicenter
  Mendon, NY
  On-going landscape consultation for therapeutic equine center.
• Fairport Baptist Home
  Fairport, NY
  Water garden installation for an assisted living center.
• Maplewood Nursing Home
  Webster, NY
  Water garden, woodland trail and planting installation for an assisted living center.
• Private Residence
  Gates, NY
  Design of an Alzheimer’s garden for a private residence.

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