Reaching New Heights with the West Tower

University of Louisville Hospital West Tower

The addition provides a new entrance and critically needed new spaces for UofL Health’s flagship, downtown campus. The seven-story tower relies on fritted glass curtain wall to express an open, welcoming, and daylight-infused ethos. The new tower includes 66 private patient rooms that rely on evidence-based design to bring healing elements into each treatment space. A 24-bed observation unit relieves overcrowding in the emergency room, enhancing care for all levels of patients.

On the second floor, 6 state of the art operating rooms will be added along with 14 pre-operation care beds to care for more high-risk patients. The hybrid operating room will be an advanced procedural space that combines traditional operating functionality with advanced imaging equipment for real time surgical guidance and assessment during complex procedures.

Patient floor design is focused on patient and visitor comfort, while offering flexible and adaptive spaces to support its mission as a premier teaching hospital. Enlarged, technology enabled nurse stations, spacious doctor’s workspaces, and convenient consult rooms afford faculty and medical students an optimal environment for teaching and learning.

Public spaces on the first and second floors include enhanced security screening, an enlarged coffee shop, a non-denominational chapel, and an open and daylit surgical visitor’s waiting room. Wood, mosaic tile, and vibrant wayfinding graphics accent the lobby to further humanize the most public experiences.