Saon Mathew combines positive attitude and 20 years of helping healthcare providers build their visions to lead Legat Architects’ wellness practice.
Wellness
New Ottawa YMCA to become regional health and wellness destination
Community, health, and wellness at the confluence: riverside Ottawa YMCA to serve diverse users and complement surroundings The Ottawa YMCA, built in the 1950s, has reached the end of its useful life. Construction has started on a new facility that will create a Healthy Living Campus at the confluence of the Illinois and Fox rivers. […]
Stonewater aquatic center and clubhouse construction underway
Aquatic center and clubhouse to stand as centerpieces of nature-focused Stonewater community Stonewater, now under construction in Wonder Lake, Illinois, offers a much different experience than the typical new home community — integrated throughout its 30 planned neighborhoods and 3,700 planned homes are winding paths, footbridges, streams, lakes, ponds, rock arrangements, and abundant vegetation. It […]
The Thorny Path to Equitable Healthcare Access
Challenges and solutions to healthcare disparities take precedence as healthcare providers, architects, and developers unite at Legat Architects’ Think Tank session on Health and Wellbeing Design. On his way home from work, Jack, a husband and father of three, gets into an automobile accident that leaves him with a brain injury. Depending on the severity […]
Legat Architects announces healthcare leadership team succession
Care at the core: Legat Architects’ longstanding healthcare practice prepares for decades to come with new leadership team When Casey Frankiewicz joined Legat Architects in 1981, the firm had never done a healthcare project. Forty years later, the firm ranks in Building Design + Construction’s Top 100 Healthcare Sector Architecture Firms in the U.S. Frankiewicz, […]
Supportive Physical Therapy Space Design
The architecture of confidence: modern physical therapy spaces designed with wellness in mind. Physical therapy can create a whirlwind of emotions. Everyone approaches PT differently. Just as there are many different personalities, there are different approaches to therapy ranging from dutiful to reticent. Through it all, there are the therapists who must operate while coaxing […]
ARP ESSER Fund: how can school districts best navigate COVID-19 relief spending?
A once-in-a-generation opportunity: EDengage roundtable explores how school districts can spend ESSER III COVID relief funds for the greatest impact What projects qualify for COVID relief? How can we use the funds to improve our dated ventilation systems? Will the funds cover remodeling? What about new construction? These are just a few of the questions […]
FMC Natatorium an Olympian achievement for Illinois swimming
Former Illinois state champ and U.S. Olympic swimmer calls FMC Natatorium “fastest and most beautiful aquatic center in Illinois” All three of Mary Ann and Mark Kaufman’s daughters grew up swimming competitively. Their meets took them throughout Illinois and beyond. They formed relationships with other swim families and with coaches . . . especially Pierre […]
Schools unearth positive lessons from COVID-19 experience
School district leaders and a clinical psychologist share travails and triumphs during the COVID-19 pandemic Though COVID-19 numbers have begun to wane, school districts across the nation continue to face pandemic-related stressors: communicating with parents, ensuring appropriate social distancing, masking, and air quality protocols, and striking a balance between remote, hybrid, and in-person learning. Legat […]
Lake Behavioral Hospital advances mental health in Lake County, Illinois
US HealthVest’s Lake Behavioral Hospital addresses shortage of mental health and addictions inpatient/outpatient services in Lake County, Illinois According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in five U.S. adults suffers from mental illness, while only 43% of adults and 51% of youth get treatment. Worse, a USA Today report shows that only 10% […]
Augustana College’s Lindberg Center to launch kinesiology program, new natatorium
Peter J. Lindberg, M.D., Center for Health and Human Performance to house Augustana College’s new kinesiology program, support expanding public health program, and usher in larger and brighter natatorium According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, positions for physical therapists are anticipated to grow by 22% over the next decade. Accordingly, Augustana College in […]
North Scott High School practice facility benefits athletes, community members
New cost-effective practice facility at North Scott High School serves multiple sports, reduces scheduling conflicts, offers more equipment storage When the weather turned sour, the North Scott High School Lancers boys baseball team would take batting practice in an off-campus building known affectionately as the “Silver Bullet.” With its two batting cages, the old farming […]
