Program Development-Intro

One in eight women in the United States develops some form of breast cancer
over their lifetime and it is also one of the leading causes of death in women over 40. Women who have to go through this traumatic experience need a place where they can feel at ease and understood, so the Wellness Center for Women offers a wide variety of services to fit every woman.
The Wellness Center will strive to be at the forefront of Breast health by offering state of the art treatment, diagnosis, screening, support, as well as education, because information is the key to detection. This Center will also offer women emotional, spiritual and physical healing programs. It will have a state of the art fitness center, a spa, salon as well as many other conveniences and luxuries to make the patient experience as easy and pleasant as possible.
This project is intended to take an older building and reuse and configure the space into something that will be of more use to the women in the community, state, and hopefully the south-west region. In this building I wanted to create an upscale wellness center and integrate a Breast Health Center. The wellness approach to healthcare emphasizes preventing illness and prolonging life. So by combining the two, you get the best of both worlds, and the patients get the opportunity to do other things than sit around and think about their illness, so their frame of mind changes. So in return, healing is faster and overall the patient treatment is more effective.