The Texas Health Orthopedic Surgery Center provides a 16,950-square-foot, freestanding ambulatory surgical center to Fort Worth and surrounding communities. The facility is operated by Surgical Care Affiliates, which worked closely with its design team to develop the ideal layout. That design has since become the organization’s new construction prototype.

Design and planning services were provided for both the building’s shell and interior finish-out. Working creatively within design parameters, the team used stone and a standing seam metal roof to blend into the existing campus while still presenting the structure as a state-of-the-art surgery center. After construction was complete, members of the project team even shadowed patients from registration through discharge to ensure the facility responded to their needs and delivered the flow and function providers required.

The architectural firm was also approved to join the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) list of pre-approved architects to perform future services for the client’s “flagship” ambulatory surgery centers across the country, some of which are already in design.