MEDICAL OFFICEs and office BASED SURGERY

To date Architecture Work P.C. in New York, NY has designed over a hundred offices in the metro area and Long Island including orthopedic, sports medicine, pain management, vascular, psychiatric, dermatological, plastic surgery and dental practices. On each project, we always strive to achieve the most efficient use of the space & make our doctors needs fit neatly.

Office based surgery (OBS) is an area of medicine rapidly expanding and we were among the first architectural firms to enter this sector of medical building projects. Legislation enacted in 2009 mandates that doctors may certain ambulatory procedures on patients in special surgical suites within their regular places of business provided they meet design standards set by one of three independent certification agencies:
-American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAAASF)
-Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC)
-The Joint Commission

Since 2008, Architecture Work P.C. has designed OBS (Office Based Surgery) offices and procedure suites in and around New York City certified from all of the above agencies. Our compliance consultants work with us to make sure we can deliver a premise that will pass inspection and they will help you and your staff to get certified by the independent agencies having jurisdiction over your new procedure suite. We can provide a complete full interior design and planning service. 

The first medical office we designed at Architecture Work P.C. was for a prominent orthopedic surgeon on Long Island in 1984. Paper files & voluminous onsite chart storage were required. The administrative part of the average medical consumed 1/3rd of the total floor space, which was considered quite efficient. By the mid 1990’s that proportion was beginning to exceed almost 2/3rds the space allocated to administration! The advent of electronic storage and the changing nature of payments to doctors created an effort to roll back this alarming trend – doctors became more aware of what they could “live with” in terms of the size of the rooms and computers enabled higher productivity of the staff. Office “flow” for the floor plan layouts became paramount.