Swaim Associates has been planning and designing college health, counseling, and wellness facilities for over 12 years. During this time, we have witnessed the evolution of these programs from inpatient care facilities for the sick to key components within the educational process promoting wellness and healthy lifestyles for the entire campus community. Our experience in the field of college health and wellness has enabled us to understand the unique needs of these programs, while recognizing that every facility has its own specific requirements. The following are some of our projects in this field.

boise state university health, wellness, & counseling services

45,000 S.F., Programming Completed 2004

Contact : Ed Marley

• Programming for replacement facility
• Developed staffing models and service delivery methods
• Projected needs based on an anticipated student population growth of 40%

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university of arizona highland commons

84,000 SF, $13.9 Million, Complete December 2003

Contact : Ed Marley, Kevin Barber

The University of Arizona Highland Commons brings together two diverse programs, Campus Health Services, which includes Counseling and Psychological Services, and the Disability Resource Center. One of the primary goals of the design is to provide a separate identity for the Disability Resource Center from the medical services components of the building program. A three-story glass gallery serves not only as a grand entry to the facility, but also as a display space for various outreach programs provided by the departments housed in the building. This element helps to draw the campus community into the landscaped courtyard at the heart of the facility which serves as an active gathering space for students, faculty, and staff. The Highland Commons is one of several new projects planned for this area of the University as a part of the master plan developed by Swaim Associates.

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university of oregon university health and counseling center

50,000 SF, $5.9 Million, Programming Completed 2003

Contact : Ed Marley, Kevin Barber

Built in 1965, the University of Oregon's University Health and Counseling Center was originally designed for what is now an out-of-date concept of inpatient medical care. The facility now houses two separate wellness-related University departments: the University Health Center, which provides primary care outpatient services, education and campus outreach in health promotion and disease prevention, and the University Counseling and Testing Center, which provides outpatient mental health care and houses a state-of-the-art testing center. Swaim Associates was asked to perform a programmatic review of the University Health and Counseling Center in preparation for an expansion and complete remodel of the existing facility. Through an interactive process, the project vision was established and the program was developed. Throughout the process, the program needs were balanced with the available budget to ensure that the eventual design would be able to properly accommodate the program.

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university of Arizona student health center space needs and expansion assessment

27,000 SF, Study Completed 1995

Contact : Ed Marley

This project involved a study to determine the feasibility of expanding the existing Student Health Center. The goal was to identify the space requirements to consolidate all health service functions back into one common facility. It was determined that 27,000 gross square feet of floor area was required to accommodate these needs. Various methods of expanding the facility, including their impact upon ongoing operations and the associated costs of each approach, were presented for the center's evaluation.

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university of Arizona student health center

12,000 SF, $1.2 Million, Completed 1989

Contact : Ed Marley

The addition to the Student Health Center provided more than needed additional space - it symbolized a changing attitude and approach to student health care. Utilizing a vocabulary of red brick and mission tile, the addition successfully expresses the traditional historic architecture of the original 1936 building. The porch is an extension of the original building's roof form expressed in a contemporary vocabulary of steel roof trusses, offering a cool and inviting refuge from the southwest desert sun. The plaza extends out from under the porch to meet the sidewalk, an inviting space for student gathering. A "transparent" ground floor encourages students to enter the building and experience the various health promotion displays. The combining of these elements form a prominent gateway building to the University of Arizona campus.

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university medical center endoscopy clinic

6,900 SF

Contact : Mark Bollard

Programming through construction was completed for this 6,900 s.f. outpatient clinic. Functions include waiting room with check-in / check-out, private consultation rooms, holding / recovering bays, scope storage and cleaning room and five procedure rooms. Two of these procedure rooms are shielded and are negative pressure. Project details include:

• 2 lower G.I. treatment rooms
• 1 bronchoscopy room.
• 10 hold / recovery bays with built-in seats & clothes storage drawers. These bays were arranged adjacent to the central nursing station.
• Negative pressure scope cleaning room with dirty scope storage & sterilization machines.
• Video monitoring system from each treatment space to the physician’s documentation room.
• Medical gas and emergency power towers.

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university medical center

Contact : Mark Bollard

Swaim Associates programmed, designed, and completed construction documents for the University Medical Center. The project includes physicians’ call rooms, office space, lobby functions, new entry and a Pheresis Infusion outpatient clinic for handling blood related treatments. The healing garden sits at the entry to the UMC Health Sciences Building to provide place for visitors and patients to relax and heal.

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