Tenwek Hospital in Bomet will soon have a new Cardiothoracic and Emergency Centre.
The ultramodern hospital building will provide a 176 bed-self-contained surgical center all within 4-storey levels above ground and 2 basements, located 300m west of the main Tenwek Hospital campus.
Triad Architects in collaboration with US-based Health Facilities Group (HFG) are the design consultants.
The building is composed of two interlinked blocks connected through a central core with three hospital lifts and a W-shaped ramp. Each block has adequate provision of staircases for fire escape within a 30 meters running distance.
Designed for both outpatients and inpatients, the building is equipped with spaces and facilities that demonstrate understanding of hierarchy of functions in a hospital. On the ground and first floors, the building is providing examination rooms, a pharmacy, a lab, a blood bank, CT and X-ray machines. On second floor, the hospital building will have an endoscopy suite that has four theatres, a 16-bed recovery room, a training center with classrooms, a conference hall, offices, and a heart surgery suite. The third floor will have six cardiothoracic theaters, a hybrid theater, a preoperative holding area and a 32-bed post anesthesia care center. The general wards accommodating up to 80 patient beds are distributed in all the 4 floors of the building.
HFG led efforts in medical planning, schematic design, design development, program production, and healthcare-related design. By working closely with hospital staff, using census data, and identifying anticipated goals, HFG determined a building size that could satisfy current and future needs. The data gathered during repeated site visits allowed HFG to accommodate the unique requirements of the region.
