Philadelphia-based EwingCole was charged with the update and expansion of PPMC, an extensive architecture and interiors project that included the new six-story, $144 million, 178,000-square-foot Penn Advanced Care Pavilion (PAC), which has treatment areas for the critically injured on the ground floor as well as 40 inpatient critical care beds on upper floors. UPHS-which includes the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) and Pennsylvania Hospital, in addition to PPMC-mandated the move of its trauma operations from HUP to PPMC, and that provided the programmatic impetus for both renovation and new construction. The existing ambulatory and acute care interiors had become outdated, the circulation systems needed clarifying, and upgrades to the patient and family experience were necessary. The Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC), which is part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) in Philadelphia, had not undertaken a significant new construction project in at least 25 years.
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