BB Stockholm is a maternity clinic at Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm.

Their philosophy is to focus, and welcome the new family by providing support, guidance and encouragement in parenting. They are engaged in health care during pregnancy, childbirth and also have gynecological outpatients.

There are two wards at the clinic, maternity (floor level 9) and postnatal care department (floor level 4).

These two departments were renovated in 2001 and have the same appearance; warm, inviting, professional yet relaxed feeling. The clinic not only stands out from the rest of the Danderyd hospital’s character, but also from all of the maternity wards/departments that we have visited so far.

Walls have a soft green tone and together with the “wooden” floor, nature motived art and the subtle niches in the corridor, make the relaxes the visitor at once.

The patient rooms have two characters; the “birthing room” and the “family room”. The “birthing rooms” have activating symbols, bright colors, furniture and items that communicate strength, hope and courage. The “family room” has a more layed back character with softer light and furniture for rest.

All rooms are single patient rooms of generous size, private WC and shower. The family rooms are designed in a way so that a family of four can stay in the room overnight.

Gudrun Abascal, a midwife and author of the book “att föda” has created the design together will 3DO architects.

For more information visit the website; http://www.bbstockholm.se/

http://www.3doarkitekter.se/projekt/vård/bb-stockholm-plan-4-3105733

We visited the department for surgery at Sahlgrenska on  thursday the 16th February.

The architectural companies WHITE and Tengbom have collaborated to create New Karolinska, Solna. Christine Hammarling from Tengbom welcomed us in their office at Katarina vägen, and was kind enough to present the project to us. In the afternoon we traveled to Solna and went to see the ongoing exibition of New Karolinska ”a world leading university hospital”, Solna 14/02- 2012                 

At karolinska vi got a tour of two ”new” ) departments; (renovated 2010)

NeoNatal & IVA-  designed by our Professor Peter Fröst.

Uppsala Akademiska Sjukhuset

In the afternoon we traveled to Uppsala together with Shadi and Danuta.

As we understand it, the hospital is in need of renovation and re-organization. The department that we were asked to consider are: the maternity wards and the children’s hospital. Christina Arnbloom was kind enough to arrange tours of both departments and meeting with the staff where they had the opportunity to explain their thoughts and feeling about the current situation.The overall layout of the different maternity wards are ok(but of course there are things that need to be improved). Good Entrance/ waiting areas. The staff areas are to small and separated. There are 13 patient rooms per ward.

Some rooms in the “Normal delivery ward” have recently been renovated. These rooms are single patient rooms but lack personal bathroom and wc. Generally they are of generous size, well equipped and in good condition.