Patient-focused care, comfort

Welcoming patients, staff and visitors to its new health and wellness destination, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in O’Fallon, Illinois, patient-focused design offers a modern appearance, more space and greater efficiencies than its previous Belleville location.

Providing the desired, upgraded look and required performance, Rockfon® metal ceiling panels help create the building’s four exterior canopies.

Warm, inviting environment

St. Elizabeth’s Hospital is a member of the Hospital Sisters Health Systems (HSHS), which partnered with Kahler Slater to master plan and design the new facility and its surrounding 120-acre campus.

According to Kahler Slater, the design supports:

• Clinical excellence
• Highest quality of patient care
• Lean-efficient operations
• St. Elizabeth’s 142-year history and faith-based mission

Wow factor

“The wood-look color was essential, but our products’ quality, ease of installation and value also were important factors in their selection,” notes Jim Frasca, Rockfon’s district sales manager.

Achieving an acceptable balance, Kahler Slater specified Rockfon® Planar® Macroplus® linear metal ceiling panels with a Metalwood® Bamboo color finish. The metal ceiling panels also are perforated and have an Acoutex® black backer for increased acoustic performance.

Von Alst Operating installed the finished metal ceiling panels in the exterior canopies on the emergency department, inpatient and departure areas. Also used on the fifth floor, the exterior canopy’s metal ceiling seems to transcend the exterior glass wall with a visually uninterrupted transition to the interior chapel and physical therapy room.