Completion Date: 2010
Square Footage: 31,000
LEED Silver

Awards:
Best In Show Citation of Merit, 2011
DESIGN/Environments for Aging

Award of Merit for Healthcare, 2011
Best of the Best Forum Design Awards
IIDA Georgia Chapter

Institutional Design Award, 2011
WoodWorks Southeast Wood Design Awards

Best Architectural Design, 2010
Southeast Construction Best Of 2010

When Willson Hospice opened In July, 2010 it immediately became the first healthcare facility in the world designated a Certified Silver Audubon International Signature Sanctuary in recognition of its extraordinary care for the 210-acre site’s flora and fauna. Exterior courtyard gardens are dedicated to patients, families, volunteers and caregivers. Its 18 residential in-patient beds arranged into three pods can eventually expand into 24 beds. The layout combines spaces for the on-campus patients and their families with areas for the mobile caregivers who tend patients in the surrounding 11-county area. The building is organized to reinforce the sense of shared mission between the residential and home care staffs. The 31,000 square foot building houses the hospice program affiliated with Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital.