UCHC Ambulatory Care Ctr

Shelton, CT – The University of Connecticut’s Health Center (UCHC) has hired Fletcher Thompson and its partner architectural firm, Tsoi/Kobus & Associates, to design a new eight-story 300,000sf Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) with a 1,250-car parking garage, scheduled for completion in 2014.
As the focal point of a growing ambulatory care campus, this new facility will greatly enhance the UCHC’s environment of care and their efficient delivery of outpatient services. The multi-specialty ACC will include outpatient clinical functions such as, internal medicine, geriatrics, neurology, surgery, otolaryngology, urology, neurosurgery, physical therapy, diagnostic imaging, in-vitro fertilization , the cancer center, and an orthodontic clinic, among many others.
“The new building is being designed to offer the best possible patient care experience in a very attractive and comfortable setting while also providing more convenient access to many outpatient services without entering the main hospital complex,” says Fletcher Thompson Principal and Director of Healthcare Architecture, Kurt Baur, AIA, ACHA.
The new Health Center includes the schools of medicine and dental medicine, the UConn Medical Group, University Dentists, and John Dempsey Hospital. Home to Bioscience Connecticut, the Health Center pursues a mission of providing outstanding health care education in an environment of exemplary patient care, research and public service.