Harrison Medical Center
Bremerton, WA, USA
Acute Care General
Rooftop garden; the garden exclusively utilizes plants with medicinal qualities
Designer: Robert Shrosbree, with NBBJ
Click HERE to see images and a description of the garden.
Note that fundraising for a new Oncology Healing Garden is also underway.
From the Harrison Foundation's August 2010 newsletter:
Kitsap County resident Mark Epstein of ESA Adolfson has been selected to design Harrison’s new Oncology Healing Garden. Epstein is recognized nationally for his work creating therapeutic garden designs. Harrison’s garden will be located on a first-floor rooftop adjacent to the inpatient oncology unit on the Bremerton campus. Planning for the garden space – which will serve as reflective place of solace and healing for patients and their families – is underway with implementation slated for later this fall or next spring (pending progress on other planned campus renovations). The garden is being funded by community donors through the Harrison Medical Center Foundation. For more information or to make a donation, call (360) 744-6760.
Visit www.harrisonfoundation.org to view a conceptual video.
Scroll down to "healing garden" to see the video, or just view it in this TLN Blog post.
Hearthstone at New Horizons
Marlborough, MA, USA
Alzheimer's care
Designers: Martha Tyson and John Zeisel
Note: The Hearthstone website does not provide information about individual healing gardens, but see this page for their general approach, a sketch of a healing garden for people with Alzheimers, and some highlights from the study "Environmental Contributors to Health Outcomes in Dementia Special Care Units."
Hearthstone Alzheimer Care at Heights Crossing
Brockton, MA, USA
Alzheimer's care
Martha Tyson and John Zeisel
See above - these are both Hearthstone facilities.
Holy Family Memorial Medical Center
Manitowoc, WI
Three healing gardens with a water feature and labyrinth
Zimmerman Architectural Studios, www.zastudios.com
Click HERE to view images and a description of the garden
Visit 7am-8pm daily
Homerton Hospital
East London, UK
Acute Care General
Homewood Health Centre
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Psychiatric
Designers: S. Barnhart & Nathan Perkins
The 47 acres of grounds of this private facility include garden and wooded areas, patio and container gardens, raised garden beds, a labyrinth. Homewood also hosts a Horticultural Therapy program.
Visit the Homewood website to learn more about the HT program and see a few images of the gardens.
Note: A detailed description 0f this facility, including drawings,
can be found in Chapter 6 of Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes' Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations (Wiley, 1999, pp. 293-304).
Houston Hospice, Texas Medical Center
Houston, TX, USA
Click HERE to see images of the garden
Howard Ulfelder, MD Healing Garden
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Boston, MA, USA
Rooftop garden
on 8th Floor - open to the public
Halvorson Design Partnership (with Cambridge Seven, architects)
Learn more at the Mass General website
Here's a review of the garden from yelp.com:
Perhaps Howard Ulfelder is not the name you would associate with the most restful place in Boston, but it's right up there in every sense of the words. Created as a serene respite for cancer patients and their families, this urban spot has a magnificent view of the river, generous seating, plentiful greenery at all times of the year, gentle watercourses and because of its location, a kind of melancholy beauty that might just suit your mid-day mood.. Since everyone in the world is the family of a cancer patient, don't be shy about entering. Of course because most people are indeed shy, and because cancer patients don't seem to have a lot of time for shilly-shallying around on the roof, you may be the only person there. Dreading a colonoscopy? Come early. Come after.
Huron Valley Sinai Hospital
Courtyard Healing Garden
Commerce Township, MI, USA
Acute care general hospital
Randy Metz, ASLA, Grissim Metz Andriese Associates
Visit GMA's website to see a description and images of this garden
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