The Deaconess Billings Clinic Medical Center is located in downtown Billings, occupying a campus of several buildings organized around the main hospital facility. A&E Architects has been providing architectural and project management services for many of the expansions, upgrades, and new projects DBC has undertaken over the past 15 years. Through a partnering process, A&E has worked closely with Facilities Services and selected contractors to deliver these complex projects quickly and smoothly. While functional efficiency is paramount in medical planning, an increasing emphasis is being placed on the quality of care and the patient's total experience. A&E has succeeded on both counts and continues to enjoy the respect and confidence of this client.

Hospital Expansion: This recent 72,000 S.F. expansion to the main hospital building by A&E focuses on the importance of women and children in the life of a hospital and its community. The centerpiece of this expansion is a three-level atrium with a circular stair and glass-enclosed elevator, naturally lit from skylights above.

The top floor houses the Family Birth Center, a 12-room Labor, Delivery, Recovery, and Post-Partum (LDRP) suite complete with two c-section operating rooms and a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with a capacity of six Level 2+ beds which can be transformed into ten transitional care beds. Special care was taken with the interior design to provide a relaxed and comfortable, non-institutional environment for mothers and families.

Below the Family Birth Center in the new hospital wing is an expanded Pediatrics Clinic with a Smithsonian theme to entertain the children and a Women's Resource Center providing counseling for expectant and new mothers.

The Hospital Laboratory was relocated and expanded into the lower level of the new hospital wing. The 10,800 S.F. lab includes facilities for client services, specimen receiving, chemistry, automated chemistry, blood bank, microbiology, serology, hematology, histology, cytology, and pathology.

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