Creating Healing Environments to Serve and Honor America’s Veterans

From mental to physical health, Page puts our veterans at the heart of our designs.  Elements like reducing travel distances between departments, improving wayfinding and universal design minimize the stress of the visit and provide a welcoming place for patients. Thoughtful details support caregivers and staff efforts to serve clients holistically, improving outcomes for veterans and their families.

VA campuses are often dense, urban sites that have grown over time around an original, historic building. Our design team has extensive experience navigating these complex environments for both renovation and expansion. Our multi-disciplinary approach makes us adept at problem-solving. We create successful solutions to complicated facilities so our clients can focus on what they do best: caring for our veterans.

Our client-focused collaborative process brings valued clinicians, staff and even veteran user groups to the table as an active part of the design team. Page project teams frequently host interactive design meetings, mock-ups and focus group sessions to better understand the needs of the regional veterans and staff. We also partner with the VA’s clinical leaders in their fields of study to present at conferences around the United States.

For both residential and outpatient patients, the ability to move about an integrated variety of spaces in VA facilities ensures they are empowered and feel a sense of control in their environment, instilling confidence over his or her own healing process. We utilize Planetree concepts and ensure that therapy, public and recreation spaces are oriented to maximize access to daylighting and views to nature, visually linking the interior spaces with landscaped gardens beyond.