Jackson West Medical Center Doral Campus

Doral, Florida

The design for the Jackson Health System Doral Campus brings the next generation of healthcare facilities closer to presenting as civic and community gathering places. The goal for the project was to transform the way people see hospitals. Through this lens, the campus operates as a place of wellness, healing, and togetherness. The buildings are designed to promote collaboration between primary care physicians and specialists and are planned for flexibility and future expansion to respond to changing technologies, staffing, and patient needs and will serve as a model of care delivery for the Jackson Healthcare System in the future.

The new six-story hospital includes 98 licensed beds with 84 medical surgical beds, eight-bed ICU and six LDRP beds. The diagnostic and treatment areas include an emergency department, imaging services, an interventional platform, laboratory, pharmacy, and additional services. The campus is supported by a 875 car parking facility.

Client: Jackson Health System
Size: 605,000 square feet
Completion Date: 2021

The buildings are designed to promote collaboration between primary care physicians and specialists and are planned for flexibility and future expansion.

In partnership with Jackson Health, the Perkins&Will team pursued three core tactics: planning with a community focus; changing the traditional patient interface; and approaching the hospital grounds like a public park.

Deeply rooted in the intersection of nature and city

With the perspective of the facility as a community space, the main lobby was designed in collaboration with a public art program and the third floor includes a retail center, business meeting rooms, and multi-use spaces that are open and available to the community.

The design team implemented strategies from hospitality design as part of the charge to change the traditional patient experience.

Project Goals and Living Design Strategies:

To epitomize healing by function and by restoring a brownfield site.
Rehabilitate and improve site hydrology and biological ecosystems.
Create a restorative outdoor environment for patients, staff and community visitors.
Optimize for energy and carbon reductions.
Build from local materials and construction methods.
Balance site for flood resilience.

Diagram showing the programmatic arrangement of a hospital building

For Doral, a community at the peak of transformation, a new healthcare facility was paramount. Shortly after the facility opened, the first child was born in a hospital in Doral. “The idea was to destigmatize hospitals – they are places to live and to hope,” said Bosch.

Project Team

Pat Bosch

Jim Bynum

Jackson West Medical Center Doral Campus

Project Team

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