Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., recently received the American College of Healthcare Architects' (ACHA) inaugural Legacy Project Award, according to an article on the VT Digger website. 

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock design includes:

· A patient- and family-centered campus

· A focus on managing first costs and ongoing operational costs with a series of connected, yet discrete buildings

· A mall as the organizing concept and circulation backbone

· The use of daylight and views of nature as a wayfinding strategy and a partner to medical treatment

Architect Shepley Bulfinch completed Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s 1.2 million- square-foot medical center in 1991 to provide a physically integrated campus of clinical, academic and research facilities that would be flexible and adaptable over time, the article said.

Since it opened, the campus has more than doubled in size in a succession of projects, adding research, clinical and administrative space.

The ACHA Legacy Project Award is the first award of its kind. It recognizes design innovation that endures throughout the life of a healthcare project, the article said.

Read the article.