Augusta State University and Georgia Health Sciences Unviversity have combined! have combined. They are now GEORGIA REGENTS UNIVERSITY.

The consolidation of Augusta State and Georgia Health Sciences universities is official following a resolution by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents to form Georgia Regents University. The new university includes nine colleges, nearly 10,000 students, more than 650 acres of campus, nearly 150 buildings, more than 1,000 full-time faculty, approximately 5,600 staff, an integrated health system and a growing intercollegiate athletics program. Its economic impact will be nearly $1.3 billion. The inaugural class of GRU will enroll in this fall.GHSU has more than 2,400 students in five colleges: the Medical College, Allied Health Sciences, Dental Medicine, Graduate Studies and Nursing. Students come from most of Georgia’s 159 counties.

The medical component offers modern classrooms and laboratories, the 478-bed Georgia Health Sciences Medical Center, the Children’s Medical Center, extensive outpatient clinics, residence halls, a student center, a wellness center and an outstanding medical education library.

With approximately 5,000 faculty, staff and residents (9,000 enterprise-wide), GHSU is one of the largest employers in the Augusta area. The University System of Georgia reports that during the 2007 fiscal year, an additional 3,800 jobs resulted from spending related to the institution, and its overall economic impact on the area approached nearly $1 billion.

FMG Design has been engaged to develop comprehensive new placemaking, environmental graphics and wayfinding for the merged system.

Quarterpath is a huge 358-acre mixed-use development proposed by RIVERSIDE Healthcare Association and is located on the Quarterpath property at Route 199 and 60 across from the entrance to Kingsmill in Williamsburg, Virginia. The non-residential component of the development consists of the new Doctors’ Hospital of Williamsburg, which will be designed to meet future medical and health care needs for the fast growing Williamsburg area, an age restricted residential community with 300 homes, a 120 bed nursing home with a related 60 units of assisted living, 97 acres to be developed into residential communities with 95 single family homes, 95 townhouses, 465 condominium units, as well as neighborhood retail and destination retail.

FMG Design will be developing a comprehensive program of environmental graphics for the Quarterpath development. FMG is already engaged with RIVERSIDE to develop a comprehensive healthcare graphics program for their RIVERSIDE Williamsburg campus including their new Doctor’s Hospital.

Baptist Healthcare System has changed their name to Baptist Health as it acquires the Pattie A. Clay Hospital in Richmond, Kentucky. This continues Baptist’s expansion of influence throughout the state of Kentucky. This includes a full acquisition of the Madisonville Regional Medical Center and Trover Clinic. This is a prestigious high-quality acquisition for Baptist Health. Baptist now has mainline hospitals in cities across the entire state including Paducah, Madisonville, Elizabethtown, Louisville, La Grange, Lexington, and Richmond. There may not be any other hospital system in Kentucky so well represented statewide.

FMG has been engaged to assist in the design and implementation of the new primary sign elements on each campus.

Central Baptist Hospital is a 383-bed acute care tertiary center located in the heart of Central Kentucky. Founded in 1954, the hospital has become a major medical research and education center and a national leader in cardiac and stroke care. Central Baptist offers some of the most advance medical facilities, technologies and capabilities in the region. Leading services include Women’s and Children’s, Baptist Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Center, Outpatient Diagnostic Centers and the Baptist Cancer Care Center.

Central Baptist Hospital is surrounded by a picturesque, established neighborhood and university housing. FMG will be developing a comprehensive wayfinding master plan, which will be utilized to update the existing hospital buildings as well as the expansion to the hospital campus. The existing hospital buildings total 906,749 square feet. This new expansion includes a seven-story, 428,040 square foot facility that will house:

FORT WORTH, Texas – Sundance Square officially broke ground today on three new buildings in the center of the 35-block office, retail, and entertainment district. The building names were also revealed and in keeping with Sundance Square’s heritage, the new buildings will be known as The Commerce Building located at 420 Commerce Street; The Westbrook situated at 425 Houston Street; and The Cassidy at 407 Throckmorton Street. The buildings will open in 2013.

“This project has been part of the master plan in downtown Fort Worth for decades,” said Ed Bass, project developer. “To finally see dirt moving is gratifying for our team and it will forever change the landscape of Sundance Square.”

FMG has been engaged to develop a comprehensive environmental graphics program for this signature project for the Sundance Square.

Since opening its doors in 1957, Southeast Alabama Medical Center has, through advanced treatment and technology, provided for the changing healthcare needs of the growing communities it serves. Serving about 600,000 residents in the neighboring communities and counties of Southeast Alabama, Southwest Georgia and the Florida Panhandle, its progress represents the culmination of distinguished service by dedicated board members, physicians, employees, volunteers and a supportive community. Employing about 2,500, the Medical Center is recognized as one of the largest employer in the region and is proud of its reputation of providing a positive and responsive work environment. The Medical Center is also supported by a medical staff comprised of 270 physicians representing virtually every medical specialty. Ninety percent of the medical staff at Southeast Alabama Medical Center is board-certified compared to the national average of 60 percent. Through innovation and sustained performance, the Medical Center, a 420-bed regional referral center has achieved the reputation of providing the best diagnostic; clinical, surgical and patient care services available in the region.

FMG has been engaged to develop a comprehensive placemaking, environmental graphics and wayfinding program for the medical center in Dothan, Alabama.

Parkview Health - Fort Wayne, Indiana: The PARKVIEW Primary Campus Entrance Feature (PCEF), which is our ‘placemaker’ for the entire $531 million Parkview health campus development, was designed primarily of layers of very thick, patterned, green glass with subtle wave patterns running from end to end. The letters reading PARKVIEW, which identify the gateway into the campus from the south end are a diffused white glass.

During the day, sun light is our illumination tool making the letters a softer white against the green glass. During the evening, the glass comes ‘alive’ from within with banks of cost efficient LED lights. The green glass lights up and the waves become more defined. After all, this campus, and the medical center in particular, is open 24 hours a day. When you light from within, the PARKVIEW letters turn into silhouettes making them darker.

Here are some pictures of the large glass pieces up at Jones Sign in Green Bay, Wisconsin. FMG was responsible for placemaking, wayfinding, environmental graphics, recognition and history wall for this major project.

Some of the services provided by the Health Center include: a Regional Cancer Center, an Outpatient Surgery Center, Women & Children’s Services, a Level II Perinatal Unit, an Adult Care Unit, Behavioral Health Services, a Sleep Disorders Center, Radiology and Imaging Services, Cardiac Catheterization and Rehabilitation, and Laboratory. Outreach services include a durable medical company (In Home Medical), a Reference Laboratory, Lincolnland Home Health and Hospice, Lifeline, and Sarah’s Homemakers.

Employing about 1,600 area residents, the Health Center promotes a culture of excellence through continuing personal and professional growth.

Sarah Bush Lincoln has undergone significant development efforts over the years and has a number of expansions and/or renovations happening now and planned for the future. This growth has also presented many signing and wayfinding challenges necessitating the development and implementation of a new global integrated wayfinding strategy and system of environmental graphics.

FMG has been engaged to develop a new brand identity, design strategy, placemaking, environmental graphics and wayfinding.

Now operating from a new, 308,000 square-foot facility, the

The Houston Food Bank, founded in 1982, is a certified member of Feeding America, the nation’s food bank network. The organization plans to grow to an annual distribution of 100 million nutritious meals by 2018.

FMG was engaged to develop a comprehensive environmental graphics program.

To celebrate the accomplishments of Silver Cross, both as a historical establishment within the community and as an entity moving forward into the future of healthcare, FMG proposed and designed display kiosks that became permanent fixtures within the new Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, Illinois. The kiosks were planned and designed as glass panels, elegantly telling the story of Silver Cross.
FMG took a step further, utilizing photographic imagery artistically etched into beautiful clear glass panels. These glass panels are edge lit to illuminate the etched artwork with an internal glow. Multiple panels of glass in layers within each kiosk create a layered, holographic effect. There are five cabinets with ten topical sides of history, imagery and information. Our client stated that this project was a ‘home run’ and a major new ‘wow’ piece for their signature new campus.

FMG also developed the new Silver Cross logo (read more: FMG Logo Design for Silver Cross Hospital Wins Awards!), campus wayfinding program and donor recognition graphics.