Midwest Cancer Center

Custom Furniture Sourcing

A Midwest hospital invited patients, survivors, caregivers, and members of its healthcare team to provide input on the design of its new $500,000 cancer center. GWS helped make their vision a reality.
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Midwest Cancer Center

Custom Furniture Sourcing

A Midwest hospital invited patients, survivors, caregivers, and members of its healthcare team to provide input on the design of its new $500,000 cancer center. GWS helped make their vision a reality.
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Midwest Cancer Center

Custom Furniture Sourcing

A Midwest hospital invited patients, survivors, caregivers, and members of its healthcare team to provide input on the design of its new $500,000 cancer center. GWS helped make their vision a reality.
GWS recently provided furniture sourcing and installation services for a Midwest cancer center, which included the renovation of one floor (about 14,030 square feet) and new construction for two additional floors (about 50,100 square feet).

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Uniting Form with Function

With 147 rooms to furnish, the GWS team worked with the project construction team and designer, as well as the hospital staff, to fine tune project needs, furniture options, and finishes while staying on budget.

  • Built a relationship of trust with the customer by keeping in mind their allotted price point
  • Chose fabrics and surfaces designed to deter the growth of bacteria
  • Focused on creating a design that was both comfortable and functional for patients

Tracking with Technology

At order entry, all manufacturers had unusually long lead times; this project had 13 to 16 weeks for furniture shipment. It was imperative to set final design decision deadlines for the customer and team to ensure the products were ordered and would arrive by construction completion.

  • Employed exclusive LINKTM technology to provide a daily summary to the customer, showing which rooms were delivered and installed
  • Used same technology to identify punch list items during the final walk-through and track completion of the final punch list
  • Narrowed choices and kept things moving forward to meet timelines

Uniting Form with Function

With 147 rooms to furnish, the GWS team worked with the project construction team and designer, as well as the hospital staff, to fine tune project needs, furniture options, and finishes while staying on budget.

  • Built a relationship of trust with the customer by keeping in mind their allotted price point
  • Chose fabrics and surfaces designed to deter the growth of bacteria
  • Focused on creating a design that was both comfortable and functional for patients

Tracking with Technology

At order entry, all manufacturers had unusually long lead times; this project had 13 to 16 weeks for furniture shipment. It was imperative to set final design decision deadlines for the customer and team to ensure the products were ordered and would arrive by construction completion.

  • Employed exclusive LINKTM technology to provide a daily summary to the customer, showing which rooms were delivered and installed
  • Used the same technology to identify punch list items during the final walk-through and track the completion of the final punch list
  • Narrowed choices and kept things moving forward to meet timelines

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Advocating for Customers

Working closely as a team, GWS provided the equipment planning/procurement/activation as well as the furniture procurement/activation/installation. We also coordinated furniture delivery and installation with other trades involved in the project.

  • Served as an advocate for the customer by ordering the products to ship from the manufacturers close to the installation date
  • Managed this process to reduce the length of storage time for the customer and allowed the team to control the amount of product on site while other trades were working
  • Provided quick solutions to any issues that arose so the customer didn’t need to worry

“We selected everything according to what our customer needed – color, finish, clinical usefulness, size, and interoperability with other equipment. All of this was considered as we helped imagine this new building to deliver cancer care to this community. We really wanted to be their partner in planning from design to patient-ready.”

GWS Vice President

Christ Hospital at Liberty Township
Courtyard Marriott
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