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Cherokee Indian Hospital designed to reflect locale, support patient comfort

The hospital’s Great Smoky Mountains locale was brought indoors with a tree form element as the theme for the building’s central spine, according to an article on the Healthcare Design website


Cherokee Indian Hospital's Great Smoky Mountains locale was brought indoors with a tree form element as the theme for the building’s central spine, with branches used in millwork on headwalls and nurses’ stations and patterns in the graphics, signage, and even in structural supports, according to an article on the Healthcare Design website.

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July 3, 2017


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