Gardens/Gardens in Healthcare and Related Facilities

Saanich Peninsula Hospital
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Nursing Home

Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend (PeaceHealth)
Springfield, OR, USA
"Siting of the buildings preserves existing wetlands and tree groves, providing a scenic, healing environment designed to create a ''total patient experience'' with a central focus on the patient and family while allowing for operational efficiency, flexibility, and potential for expansion."
See images at: Anshen+Allen Architects

Salk Institute
La Jolla, CA, USA
Designer: The Office of James Burnett

Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital
Lebanon, OR, USA
Serves 4 distinct populations: Infusion therapy patients, birthing patients, students and educators, and staff and visitors.
http://www.Samhealth.org/shs_facilities/lch/m
Designer: Kurisu International, Inc.

San Francisco California General Hospital - The Comfort Garden
San Francisco, CA, USA
Acute Care General Hospital

Santa Fe Cancer Center at St. Vincent Hospital
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Healing garden
Designer: The Landscape Group; Raquel Casillas-Hughes; Nancy Dickenson

Santa Rosa Community Hospital - Linnaeus Physik Garden
Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Acute Care General Hospital

Schnaper Memorial Garden
Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center
NY, NY
Dirtworks.us/healthcare/schnaper.html
Designer, David Kamp, Dirtworks, PC Landscape Architecture

Scottsdale Memorial Hospital North
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Acute Care General Hospital
"Borrowed landscape"

Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine
La Jolla, CA, USA
Designer: The Office of James Burnett

Sedgewood Commons
Falmouth, ME, USA
Alzheimer's
Healing gardens for specific stages of Alzheimer's
Designer: Robert C. Hoover, ASLA

Serenity Hollow Farm
Franklin, TN, USA
Disabled Care (mental and physical)
Paula and David Dumont
See Dannenmaier (1995) in references

The Sequoias - San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
Roofdecks with several different themed gardens, including Asian Garden, Formal Garden, California Native Garden, Perennial Garden, Grass Garden, Shade Garden, and Resident's Garden
Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC)
Designer: Robert La Rocca & Associates
Click HERE to take virtual tours of the gardens

Shalom Village Seniors Facility - Gussie Sobel Healing Garden and others
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC)
Designer: Visionscapes Landscape Architects Inc.

Shepherd's Home
Penfield, NY, USA
Hospice healing gardens
Designer: Zaretsky and Associates, Inc.
www.zaretskyassociates.com

Shipley Manor - Sunrise Senior Living
Wilmington, NJ, USA
Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC)
Courtyard garden
Designer: Design for Generations, LLC

Sibley Memorial Hospital Memorial Healing Garden
Washington D.C., USA
Designer: Mahan Rykiel Associates Inc.

SickKids
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Indoor atrium garden is a 90 story, glass-roofed atrium
Designer: Eberhard Zeidler of Zeidler Roberts Partnership
www.sickkids.on.ca

Solheim Lutheran Home for Alzheimer's facility
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Holly Kawayma

Sonoma Valley Hospital
Sonoma, CA, USA
Acute Care General
Two courtyard gardens: "One courtyard contains a grove of white birch trees set in a mass planting of blue agapanthus. The courtyard's contrast of forms and colors can be viewed from a glass corridor that connects the original hospital to
the new addition. A second courtyard is used as a rest area and for family gathering. This courtyard has stepping stones set in moss and a dense perimeter planting which creates a serene, relaxing environment." From designer Robert La Rocca & Associates' website.

Southwest Washington Medical Center
Vancuouver, WA, USA
Swmedicalcenter.com/body.cfm?id=2035

St. Agnes Hospital
Fond du Lac, WI, USA
Memorial entry garden and Angel of Hope garden
Designer: Zimmerman Architectural Studios

St. Ann’s Home
Milwaukee, WI
Healing gardens for senior residents
Designer: Zimmerman Architectural Studios

St. George's Hospital
London, UK
Acute Care General

St. John Neumann Nursing Home
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Adult Social Day Care Alzheimer's Garden
Designer: Design for Generations, LLC

St. Louis Children's Hospital
St. Louis, MO, USA
Rooftop garden
Designer: EDAW, Ft. Collins, Colorado
www.stlouischildrens.org
See Hammatt (2002) in references

St. Louis Children's Hospital
"Together We Play" All-Inclusive Playground

St. Louis, MO, USA
Designer: SWT Design
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.

St. Luke’s Hospital Master Plan
Bethlehem, PA, USA
Designer: Mahan Rykiel Associates Inc.

St. Lukes Medical Center
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Healing garden courtyard
Designer: Zimmerman Architectural Studios

St. Martha Manor Nursing Home
Downingtown, PA, USA
Intergenerational courtyard garden
Designer: Design for Generations, LLC

St. Mary's Hospital
Newport, Isle of Wight, UK
Acute Care General

St. Mary's Hospital
San Francisco, CA, USA
Acute Care General Hospital
Roof terrace

St. Mary Manor Nursing Home
Lansdale, PA, USA
Alzheimer's
Designer: Design for Generations, LLC

St. Michael Hospital
Texarcana, TX, USA
Acute Care General Hospital
Designer: The Office of James Burnett
See Leccese (1995) in references

St. Rita’s Oncology Center
Lima, OH, USA
Healing and meditative gardens
Designer: Zimmerman Architectural Studios

St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena Campus
www.unce.unr.edu/Southern/mg/projects_strose-siena.html

St. Thomas' Hospital
London, UK
Acute Care General

Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA, USA
Acute Care General Hospital
Atrium garden

STARS: Sub-Acute Treatment for Adolescent Rehabilitation Services
San Leandro, CA, USA
Psychiatric (teen)
Designer: The Design Partnership
STARS was a case study in Naomi Sachs' chapter on psychiatric hospitals in Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes' Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations (Wiley, 1999).

Sunrise at Fair Oaks
Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Assisted Living Facility
Designer: Lewis Scully Gionet Inc.
Sunriseseniorliving.com

Sunrise at Mount Vernon
Alexandria, VA, USA
Senior Living Facility
Designer: Lewis Scully Gionet Inc.
Sunriseseniorliving.com

Sunrise at Reston Town Center
Reston, VA, USA
Assisted Living Facility
Designer: Lewis Scully Gionet Inc.
Sunriseseniorliving.com


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