Our team worked with UPMC on the relocation of their Forbes Avenue Eye Care & Optical Center within the historic Iroquois Building. By combining two existing spaces, our team was able to create a modern healthcare environment consisting of private exam and tech rooms for patients to get their vision checked, as well as a bright sales room that highlights available glasses, contact lenses, and necessary supplies.

Maitri (My-tree) Medicinals is a start-up medical marijuana company based out of Southwestern Pennsylvania. LGA served as the local architect for Maitri’s first two dispensary locations, working with designer High Road Design Studio to create a space that met the strict guidelines set forth by the state of Pennsylvania. Every design decision made in the creation of these two locations was made to emulate Maitri’s brand ideal, elevated wellness.

A local healthcare system asked our team to renovate portions of their existing space to expand their precepting areas within Family Medicine in order to accommodate the growing number of medical students joining their program for clinical rotations.  Additional seating was needed to allow the medical students to access patient information, clinical data, and to participate in a stimulating learning environment. These alterations will also allow additional teaching by attending supervising physicians and will provide the advanced practitioners a method to interact with the medical staff.

The LGA team was tasked with relocating the existing 6,000 square foot facility to a partially occupied 4,000 square foot tenant space within an existing local hospital. The project design includes exam & procedure rooms, along with clinical support spaces, charting rooms, clinical touchdown pods with storage, and ancillary staff space. Starting schematic design more detailed than usual, including a detailed site survey and equipment catalog, our team helped to illustrate to leadership the exact square footage and room proportions needed, resulting in an efficiently organized plan that accommodated the entirety of the program in less square footage.

LGA Partners completed a conversion of a former fitness center in Penn Hills to accommodate a state-of-the-art medical campus for Premier Medical Associates. Included in our design is a complete renovation to the 25,500 square foot existing building, and a 17,100 square foot addition. The new medical campus houses six medical suites, conference and training rooms, 54 exam rooms, five labs, a pediatrics department, and several other medical departments.

Funded as part of the Passavant Foundations’ First Impressions Program, LGA was tasked to reconfigure the existing nurses’ station to improve workflow and upgrade the finishes. Reorienting the nurses’ station with its dominant side facing the direction of the public access helps correct visibility and provides a direct line of sight to visitors seeking direction. Close coordination with UPMC Interiors allowed for deviation from the standard finishes to better align the new with existing while still providing a fresh, modern look that maintained the same maintenance requirements for all finishes.

The AHAVA Memory Care Center is a key component of the Jewish Association on Aging’s residential campus. It is modeled to provide subtle, continuous support to people that live with Alzheimer’s. By building in memory cues and naturally familiar places, the physical surroundings eliminate sources of frustration in order to reach deeply etched memories and support independent actions. We provided JAA with a complete video rendering of the new care center for potential donors as well as comprehensive design services to ensure the project was completed on time and on budget.

LGA Partners worked with Tusk Development on the design of a new medical strip center in Pleasant Hills, PA. In addition to the building’s shell, we designed several of the interior medical spaces, including an optometrist office and Kids+ Pediatrics, the center’s anchor location. Our design for Kids+ is bright and tactile, with ample room for both staff and patients.

Building off the aesthetic we had established with them on their Penn Hills campus, LGA designed a two-story, 20,000 square foot building that nestled into a hillside. The upper floor, which Premier Medical utilizes, includes space for their Family Medicine and Pediatrics associates. Each of the suites includes waiting areas, exam rooms, offices, nurse’s stations, break rooms, and storage space. Since it’s completion in early 2017, LGA has helped to fit-out the lower level for Davita Dialysis and the Allegheny Health Network.

LGA has an open-ended contract with Colonial Management Group to provide design services for methadone treatment facilities throughout the US. We work to apply a retail roll-out model strategy to the creation of new treatment facilities to ensure consistent, efficient, and widely-available services across the nation. A typical scope includes a thorough survey of a site’s existing conditions and systems followed by a complete renovation and implementation of a contemporary, approachable, and functional design to each location.