Healthwise summer/fall 2007 - Citrus Valley Health Foundation

Questar Construction and TAYLOR:
Uniting two firms to create Foothill’s new
Arthur and Sarah Ludwick Emergency Care Pavilion
Two firms with a long history of working with
medical organizations to create state-of-the-art,
community-minded facilities joined forces to design
and build the new Arthur and Sarah Ludwick Emergency
Care Pavilion.
Questar Construction, a construction design company,
and TAYLOR, an architectural firm, worked closely with
hospital staff and administration to create a facility that
will meet the needs of Glendora and the surrounding
communities for years to come.
Questar got its start in the early 1990s doing work from the garage of President Jim
Salomon’s San Dimas home. Initially, Questar did health-care work because state
regulations and Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD)
requirements made such projects undesirable to many companies, so there were a
number of opportunities. As time went on and the company became more
established, the rewarding nature of health-care work motivated the company to
continue with these types of projects.
Questar is now housed in a building that it designed and built in Newport Beach.
The company’s extensive work with Citrus Valley Health Partners over the years
includes the Family Birth & Newborn Center at the Citrus Valley Medical Center –
Queen of the Valley Campus in West Covina and the Catheterization Laboratory at
the Citrus Valley Medical Center – Inter-Community Campus in Covina, as well as a
number of remodeling projects for CVHP.
TAYLOR has specialized in institutional work, including hospitals, since being formed
in 1979. In designing the new pavilion, TAYLOR architects sought to give the new
building a contemporary look that was subtle enough so that it would blend in with
the existing facility and give the impression that it had always been part of the
hospital.
One of the ways in which the contemporary look was attained is through is
clerestory windows and a tall glass tower at the public entrance. The natural light
that will be allowed in, as well as the soothing color palette that has been used,
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help create a warm, welcoming
environment that will help patients and
their families feel more at ease.
As architects and designers formulated
a plan for the inside of the new pavilion,
special consideration was given to
designing workstations and patient care
areas that are as strategically well
placed and efficient as possible.
Questar and TAYLOR’s combined efforts
have helped create an emergency
department that will allow Foothill
Presbyterian Hospital to serve more
than 24,000 patients each year in a safe
and comfortable environment that is
consistent with and representative of
CVHP’s standards of excellence.
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