Saltzer Health Ten Mile Medical Campus completes in Meridian, Idaho

The new 147,695-sf Saltzer Health Ten Mile Medical Campus has completed in Meridian, Idaho.

The four-story project will provide an array of specialty clinics in an easily accessible and welcoming medical campus. The facility will include a five-room outpatient surgery center, physical therapy, gastroenterology, endoscopy, urgent care, family medicine, and a five-modality medical imaging center.

Saltzer Health Ten Mile Medical Center urgent care

The design of the project is wholly patient centered, focusing on ease of access to services, efficient space layout, and modern interior design. The project fills the need for high-quality, state-of-the-art health care in the fast-growing areas of Meridian and Nampa.

The project team also included Oakland Construction (contractor), Horrocks Engineers (civil engineer), BVA Development (developer), SE-Charlton Consulting (structural engineers), PVE Inc. (mechanical and electrical engineer), Bear Design Group (landscape architect), and KovichCo (interior designer).

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Saltzer Health Ten Mile Medical Center lab space

For most of human history, design has mostly considered “typical users” who are fully able-bodied without clinical or emotional disabilities. The problem with this approach is that it offers a limited perspective on how space can positively or negatively influence someone based on their physical, mental, and sensory abilities.

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