Identical patient-monitoring equipment has been installed in all patient care areas to help staff avoid learning too many different procedures. Patient rooms have been designed to feel more like a home bedroom than a hospital room. Eighty-six of the hospital's 98 beds are in private rooms, and the majority of those have been located on the third floor, away from the hospital's noisier public spaces. Patient rooms feature padded window seats big enough to accommodate a family member who wants to sleep over, and wood cabinets cover lines for medical supplies such as oxygen and the connections for monitoring equipment. Building designers acknowledged the healing power of sunlight for patients, visitors and staff.
Patient rooms have large windows, and public spaces are flooded with sunlight.
Swathes of glass on the second and third floor provide views of the mountains that surround Grants Pass, and skylights have been built over nurse's stations to carry natural light into the work areas. The footprint of the building on the 44-acre site was configured so that the patient care areas can be doubled without moving or restructuring the physical plant, which provides heating and cooling to the building. Mail Tribune, Inc.