Providence Hospital

One of the last major hospital complexes designed by BGA, this design featured an eight-story bed tower with 350 beds atop a three-story base. By the time Goldberg began work on the design for Providence Hospital he had completed a number of designs for other healthcare facilities and had refined much of his thinking on the subject, specifically the "bed-cluster pod" with groups of beds clustered around a central nurse's station. By eliminating long corridors, the pod increased the ability of the nurses to see patients and get to them easily. First introduced in his design for St. Joseph Hospital, the bed cluster was now a feature of most of his hospital projects. The bed tower was built as a concrete shell, able to withstand earthquakes and hurricanes. A small lake for storm water retention was created by damming a natural gully on the site.