The New Novato Community Hospital

Planning Concepts

The new facility, incorporating some of the most advanced planning and design concepts, is a state of the art building that promotes physical, emotional and spiritual healing. The planning was accomplished by hours of design meetings with all departments and various employees, medical staff, volunteer auxiliary and board members.

The following planning concepts were established to assure quality patient care, staffing efficiency, and cost containment through ease and convenience of operation:

• Classical design to comply with community character and zoning
• Satisfy space needs/requirements
• Enhance operations efficiency
• Establish a healing healthcare environment to balance with the requirements of technology
• Structure facility for adaptability to future state of the art technology
• Acquire state of the art technology
• Improve patient room amenities to foster patient dignity, privacy and family support
• Structure comfortable environment for patient care
• Enhance the environment for support of healing
• Simplify circulation and clarify way finding