Kahler Slater: Kahler Slater to receive national honor with interior design award

CONTACT
Jennifer Neighbors
(262) 649-3824; jennifer@neighborspr.com


2014 ASID Elevate Award for Healthcare to Recognize Interior Design of UW Health Yahara Clinic

MILWAUKEE – Architecture and experience design firm Kahler Slater will be honored with the national 2014 ASID Elevate Award for Healthcare for the interior design of the UW Health Yahara Clinic in Monona, Wis. The award will be presented during Celebration: The ASID Awards Gala on June 21 in Los Angeles.

Senior Interior Designer and Associate Principal Jessica Dellenbach, ASID, EDAC is the ASID member recipient for the Kahler Slater project team.

The ASID Elevate Awards celebrate interior designers who have contributed significantly to the profession through projects that demonstrate the power of design to positively change people’s lives. ASID created the Elevate Awards to bring national attention to interior designers whose accomplishments already had received acclaim from their local ASID chapters.

The UW Health Yahara Clinic received a Gold Award in the ASID Wisconsin Design Excellence Awards competition in 2013.

UW Health Yahara Clinic
Dellenbach and the Kahler Slater team partnered with the University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation (UWMF) in designing and programming the outpatient facility based on a new care delivery model that supports a lean and efficient operation, staff collaboration, enhanced patient satisfaction and better patient outcomes. The 32,656-square-foot facility offers family medicine, laboratory, imaging and physical therapy services, as well as health education programs.

UWMF stipulated that the facility incorporate voluntary patient self-rooming, a new concept designed to reduce wait times and maximize efficiency. It has an Integrated Care Team (ICT) space that draws physicians out of private offices and into a team environment that encourages collaboration and face-to-face communication. The space plan separates “off-stage” staff space from “on-stage” patient amenity and circulation areas, ensuring patient privacy, reducing interruptions to staff members and creating a comfortable, welcoming environment for patients.

Post-occupancy evaluations have shown that the design has reduced staff footsteps by 83 percent and increased overall patient satisfaction scores by 25 percent.

The facility is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certified for sustainable design and construction.