Community integration was, as with his residential designs, a key tenet of Goldberg's design philosophy for health care. Master plans were conceived to integrate the institution and it's neighbors just as interior spaces were manipulated in an effort to integrate internal hospital communities. Most of Goldberg's health care designs followed a general design scheme of "geocentric" patient tower rising from a rectilinear services base building. The geocentric tower—in which patient rooms surround a central nurses' station in a circular form—ensures that all patients are equidistant from their caretakers and that there are uninterrupted sight lines to the patient rooms, allowing for better monitoring and communication.

  1. Menninger Foundation Clinic, Topeka, KS, 1965. Plan, [1965].
  2. Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix, AZ , 1978-1982. 1990 regional plan, 1978.
  3. St. Joseph Hospital, Tacoma, WA, 1969-1974. Exterior rendering, 1970.
  4. Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix, AZ , 1978-1982. Exterior view, c.1982.
  5. State University of New York (SUNY), Health Sciences Center, Clinical Science Tower and Patient Care Bed Tower, Stony Brook, NY, 1965-1976. Exterior, c.1978.
  6. Affiliated Hospital Center, Boston, MA, 1964-1971. Early rendering, April 1971.
  7. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Prentice Women's Hospital and Maternity Center, Chicago, IL, 1969-1975. Exterior view, c.1975.
  8. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Prentice Women's Hospital. Computer aided drawing, n.d.
  9. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Prentice Women's Hospital. Construction view, [1974].
  10. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Prentice Women's Hospital. Typical OB nursing floor plan, April 24, 1971.

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