A two-story arrival atrium cuts through the building, creating a visual connection for families and staff as they move between the floors. In the end, the team decided to centralize clinic services on the first floor and research on the second to maximize flexibility. Rebecca Kleinbaum Sanders, vice president and principal, healthcare practice group, at HGA, says the project team looked at different stacking models for the clinic/research building, including splitting the building’s two floors by patient population. Three years ago, the various stakeholders providing these services-including clinical departments involved in the assessing and treatment of patients with disorders from autism to rare diseases, child and adolescent psychiatry, and child neurology-came together to transform a former, two-story Shriners Hospital near the university’s main campus into a destination for centralized services.ĭesigned by HGA (Minneapolis) and built by Knutson Construction (Minneapolis), the new institute comprises a pair of two-story buildings connected by an elevated skywalk, with one building housing clinical care and research with education and workplace functions located in the other. Michael Georgieff, a newborn intensive care doctor and co-director of the MIDB. “Why would you have these separate entities all over campus and move a child from place to place when you could have a one-stop shop?” says Dr. Prior to its opening, these specialty services for early childhood and adolescent patients were spread across the university campus, which created a less-than-ideal experience for patients. The new 117,000-square-foot Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB), delivering neurodevelopmental clinical care, research, and education and advocacy services, opened in November 2021 on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis.

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