Parkland Moody Outpatient Center
The award-winning healthcare design of the Parkland Moody Outpatient Center unites 24 disparate clinics in a central building on Parkland’s new campus—creating a dignified health community for all.
Project highlights: Parkland Moody Outpatient Center
- Architecture firm: HKS
- Owner: Parkland Health & Hospital System
- Location: Dallas
- Category: B
- Project site: Previously developed
- Building program type(s): Healthcare - outpatient - general
For more than 125 years, the Parkland Health and Hospital System has been Dallas’ primary treatment center for the city’s sickest patients, often those with no access to health insurance and living below the poverty line. When Parkland replaced its massive acute care hospital, its multiple clinics were still located in outdated facilities across the city. This project elegantly unites the 24 disparate clinics in a central building on Parkland’s new campus, creating a dignified health community for all.
Built on a former industrial site that was later turned into a parking lot, the clinic’s massing and landscape plan, which aims to “put the park back in Parkland,” emphasizes wellness. A network of greenspaces stretches between the clinic and the main hospital, and a new park celebrates those arriving by public transit and pedestrians traveling to the clinic from the main hospital. In placing park land on the former parking lot, the hospital has signaled its investment in the county’s biosphere and community. The clinic also includes a new rehab garden that helps Dallas’ young athletes get back on the court or field quickly, as well as a walking trail that meanders through a new garden on the southwest portion of the site.
The tax-funded hospital aims to be the foundation for a healthier Dallas, and the clinic’s design team paid careful attention to both initial cost and long-term flexibility. Standardization and modularity, from prefabricated wall panels on the exterior to standardized clinic pods within, help bring quality and flexibility to the LEED Gold-certified building.
The team developed a new clinic module that works for each of the specialty clinics within and maximizes flow to adjacent ones, a programming strategy that allows for quick conversions and potential future changes in healthcare system operations and management. High-volume functions, such as the intake and visitor areas, are located on the ground floor, while others, like the signature Moody Center for Breast Health, are easy to locate across the six floors. The team spent several months analyzing and documenting existing spaces for each of the clinics in the program, discovering that each operated in isolation with different processes and private spaces. By developing a standardized clinic pod model, the team standardized processes for the unified building, which, in turn, accommodates change-readiness and flexibility.
Today, under one roof, the Parkland Moody Outpatient Center serves a daily population of more than 800 patients with serious conditions such as breast cancer, HIV, diabetes, and severe injuries. Through the collaborative process that drove the project, the clinic boasts 60 additional exam rooms with just a fraction of added square footage.
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Framework for Design Excellence measures
Was there a design charrette? Yes
Level of community engagement:
Inform: Potential stakeholders were informed about the project.
Consult: Stakeholders were provided with opportunities to provide input at pre-designed points in the process.
Involve: Stakeholders were involved throughout most of the process.
Collaborate: A partnership is formed with stakeholders to share in the decision-making process including development of alternatives and identification of the preferred solution, Empower: Stakeholders were provided with opportunities to make decisions for the project.
Site area that supported vegetation (landscape or green roof) pre-development: 10%
Site area that supports vegetation post-development: 31%
Site area covered by native plants supporting native or migratory species and pollinators: 31%
Strategies used to promote Design for Ecosystems: Biodiversity, Habitat conservation, flora/fauna
Is potable water used for irrigation? No
Is potable water used for cooling? No
Is grey/blackwater reused on-site? No
Is rainwater collected on-site? No
Stormwater managed on-site: Unknown
2030 Commitment baseline EUI: 143.96 kBtu/sf/yr
Predicted net EUI including on-site renewables: 101.44 kBtu/sf/yr
Reduction from the benchmark: 29%
Is the project all-electric? No
Level of air filters installed: MERV 12-14
Was a “chemicals of concern” list used to inform material selection? Yes
Do greater than 90% of occupied spaces have a direct view to the outdoors? No
Were embodied carbon emissions estimated for this project? Yes
Estimated service life: 50 years
Floor area, if any, representing adapting existing buildings: 0%
Ability to survive without utility power: Full back-up power
Risk assessment and resilience services provided: Unknown
Has a post-occupancy evaluation been conducted? No, but a POE will be conducted.
Building performance transparency steps taken:
Present the design, outcomes, and/or lessons learned to the office.
Project team & jury
Year of substantial project completion: 2021
Gross conditioned floor area: 525,000 sq. ft.
Accessibility: Access by Design
Acoustical: Acoustonica
Associate Architects: Manning Architects, VAI Architects
Audio / Visual / Telecom: MEP Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Civil Engineer: Pacheco Koch Consulting Engineers, LLC
Commissioning: Burns & McDonnell
Contractor: McCarthy Building Companies / The Crowther Group
McCarthy Building Companies / The Crowther Group
Envelope: Pie Consulting & Engineering
Fire Protection: MEP Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Graphics / Wayfinding: Healthcare Graphics
Consulting Interiors: HKS, Inc.
Kitchen: Systems Design International, Inc.
Landscape Architect: Pacheco Koch Consulting Engineers, LLC
Lighting: Architectural Lighting Alliance
MEP Engineer: MEP Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Programming: HKS, Inc.
Security: MEP Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Specifications: HKS, Inc.
Structural Engineer: Walter P Moore and Associates, Inc., Martinez Moore Engineers, LLC
Sustainability / Energy Code: HKS Inc., Sustainable Concepts LLC
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