The New One Nineteen Health & Wellness Center introduces the northern alabama to an al-encompassing healthcare approach

Under the umbrella of Birmingham's St. Vincent's Hospital, the new One Nineteen Health and Wellness Center introduces the northern Alabama area to an all-encompassing healthcare approach. The Center houses the only integrated medical and holistic healthy lifestyle program in this region. The program promotes health and well being in all aspects of a person's life through education, fitness, diagnostic services and related programs. The health and wellness center opened for operation in December2004.

Earl Swensson Associates, a 45-year-old firm headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, served as the Center's architect and interior designer.

Health Fitness Dynamics (HFD), a leading international spa consulting firm of Pompano Beach, Florida, served as the spa and fitness consultant. HFD provided feasibility analysis, start-up budgets, programmed pieces of equipment for both the spa and fitness area, identified types of treatment to be offered by the spa and worked with the design team through design development.

The 154,645-square-foot center provides services to diagnostic patients and also individual members, who can join the center for the benefits of the well-rounded program and highly skilled staff professionals. In addition to a full-service, medical day spa, there are four other program components housed in the center: diagnostics, rehabilitation, wellness and fitness. The curved corridor design leads guests to the spa and fitness areas to the left and to rehabilitation and diagnostic services to the right.

During a nine-month process, the project team and several committees from St.Vincent's Hospital intensely studied and evaluated similar facilities around the country in an effort to determine the best solution for the Birmingham community. They examined the potential benefits that a wellness and fitness center would provide, and their findings showed that having wellness integrated with healthcare in one facility supports healthy living and provides long term preventative care.

Ronald M. Lustig, AIA, ISHC, Principal Design Architect

Ron Lustig serves as a principal design architect of ESa. While his areas of specialization are in corporate office projects and hospitality and entertainment venues, his extensive experience also includes design and master planning of healthcare, retirement, retail and educational facilities.

Since joining ESa in 1976, he has served as design architect and project coordinator for many of the firm’s largest corporate office buildings with flexible work spaces geared toward high productivity and efficiency, state-of-the-art technology, training rooms and meeting spaces.

Selected Project Experience
Spas & Wellness Centers
• The Broadmoor Hotel renovation and Spa, Colorado Springs, CO
• The Hotel Hershey & Hershey Spa, Hershey, PA
• Malliouhana Hotel Spa, Meads Bay, Anguilla, British West Indies
• St. Vincent's One Nineteen Health and Wellness Center, Birmingham, AL

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