Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center
San Francisco, CA, USA
New construction of a 150-year-old hospital. Move was completed in late 2001/early 2011.
Many outdoor features including accessible gardens, walking paths, meadow, woodland, garden specifically for Alzhiemer's unit, greenhouse, raised beds, many views of nature from indoors. Intergenerational garden program with volunteers from the Waldorf School (local high school) to work with patients in the greenhouse and with raised beds (guided by activity therapy program staff). Also indoor plants in atrium and patient/visitor common areas; patients may have plants in their rooms as well.
Laguna Honda also has an animal farm/petting zoo with goats, ducks, geese, and other animals (farm area also has a duck pond).
Landscape Architect: The Office of Cheryl Barton
Architect: Anshen + Allen, Stantec Architecture
Visitor are welcome during hours of 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m., 7 days a week - visitors must sign in.
Laguna Honda is a "Pebble Partner" with the Center for Health Design. For more information, visit the CHD website.
For articles about
Laguna Honda, see:
"Full-service lifecare" in August 2010 issue of HealthcareDesign Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 8, pp. 75-83. Article is online HERE.
"The Art of healthcare design" in the October 2010 issue of Contract Design magazine, pp. 58-64. Article is online HERE.
Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital
Pediatric Playground
Norfolk, VA, USA
Designer: LandMark Design Group (LMDG)
Built specifically for the severly mentally and physically handicapped children living at the hospital.
Read about and see images of this garden in Stephen Kelly's article on accessible playgrounds in the October 2008 issue of Landscape Architect and Specifier News.
Lambeth Community Care Centre
London, UK
Legacy Health
Oregon Burn Center Garden - First U.S. healing garden designed for burn survivors
Portland, OR, USA
Designer: Quatrefoil, Inc.
Visit the Legacy Health website to learn more about the garden and their horticultural therapy program.
Click here to read the designer's description and see pictures of the garden.
An article about the garden:
Cooper Marcus, Clare (2008). "For Burn Patients, a Place to Heal." Landscape Architecture, Vol. 98, No. 4, March, p. 78-89.
Read a portion of the article online in the LAM Archives.
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital & Medical Center
Stenzel Healing Garden
Green Gables Guest House Garden
Kern ICU Garden
Portland, OR, USA
Legacy Emanuel Medical Center
Behavioral Health Garden for adolescent and adult psychiatric patients
Portland, OR, USA
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center Healing Garden
Portland, OR, USA
Here's a YouTube video of the Healing Garden, with horticultural therapist Teresia Hazen
Legacy Emanuel Children's Hospital (Officially the Children's Hospital at Legacy Emanuel)
Legacy Emanuel Children's Garden
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Garden
Portland, OR, USA
Legacy Hospice Services
(An affiliate of Legacy Health in Portland)
Portland, Oregon, USA
www.legacyhealth.org
Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital
Vancouver, WA, USA
Several different healing gardens, with architecture planned to incorporate views of nature.
Architect: Zimmer Gunsal Frasca Partnership
Landscape Architect: Walker Macy
Click HERE to link to a pdf of Walk Macy's "Guide to the Shrubs and Perennials of the Healing Gardens."
Life Enrichment Center
Kings Mountain, NC
www.dirtworks.us/healthcare/lec.html
Designer, David Kamp, ASLA, LF, Dirtworks, PC Landscape Architecture, www.dirtworks.us
Linden Oaks Hospital
Naperville, IL, USA
Children's Play Garden, Sensory Garden, Reading Garden
Designer: Hitchcock Design Group, www.hitchcockdesigngroup.com
The Lodge at Broamead
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Alzheimer's care
Courtyard gardens
Lodi Good Samaritan Center
Lodi, WI, USA
Continuting Care Retirement Community (CCRC)
Lucas Gardens School
Canada Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Children's garden
Therapeutic gardens
Designer: Good Manors, Landscape Architects
Lucille Packard Children's Hospital
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA, USA
"The three-story facility is organized around a central garden and courtyard that serves as a reference point and aids in wayfinding. A roof garden provides a pleasant and safe area where patients, families, and staff can meet and relax."
Their website: www.lpch.org/aboutus/HistoryAndMission/
Designer: Anshen+Allen Architects
Lynwood Continuing Care Center
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Nursing Home/Continuting Care Retirement Community (CCRC)
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