Here are five things to know:
1. A 179,000-square-foot space, Josie Robertson Surgery Center houses operating rooms on three floors.
2. Care areas are tailored to specific specialty procedures.
3. Another floor in the center includes a Post Anesthesia Care Unit short-stay area, family waiting space, a pre-op room and a business center. The ASC also includes a rooftop terrace.
4. Sunlight floods in the vertical design’s patient rooms.
5. The building’s core mechanical and structural aspects are pushed to the perimeter, to allow for continuous floor plates needed in the surgical areas.
6. Due to flood zone regulations, the electrical transformers were moved into concrete vaults on the second floor, with the IT center on a higher floor.
7. The ASC opened in December 2015.
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