The University of New Mexico Ambulatory Care Addition

The ambulatory care building consolidates over 150,000 annual outpatient care visits and provides departmental office space for most of the clinical departments in the School of Medicine at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Zilm directed the analysis of space needs, the development of ambulatory care organizational concepts, and the building organization. Patient care and faculty office spaces are clustered by clinical specialty, allowing a horizontal organization by floor to the existing University Hospital function. Ambulatory care space was developed utilizing a modular concept which provides a framework for reassigning and adapting space as needs change. Full scale mock-ups of patient examination areas were developed as part of the programming effort. Support services, including pharmacy, laboratory specimen collection, and education were decentralized to provide maximum patient accessibility without increasing staffing.