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Rockingham Memorial Hospital

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Vision for RMH Hospital and Health Campus

The campus will be a beautiful park-like setting, in harmony with the surrounding area, with facilities designed to bring the best of 21st century health, wellness and medical care to our community.

Design Principles

Quality clinical care and patient safety are supported by the built environment.

  • Campus is safe and secure.
  • Patient safety and clinical care are optimized through evidence-based design.
  • Information technology enables a safe environment.
  • Ambiance reflects the healing arts for the mind, body and spirit.

Built-in flexibility and adaptability facilitate efficient operations and effective change.

  • The design reflects sound business principles.
  • The campus offers a learning environment for physicians, staff and the community.
  • The design promotes flexibility and adaptability for new technologies.

Care is organized around our Service Excellence Values (Appearance, Positive Impressions, Teamwork, Confidentiality and Privacy, Safety Awareness, and Service Recovery).

  • Care is patient focused and compassionate, and encourages family and caregiver participation.
  • Facilities are accessible and convenient.
  • The campus facilitates a healing environment, promotes interactions with staff, includes caring for family and community, and promotes connections outside the facility.
  • Wayfinding is intuitive.
  • The facilities are designed to maximize employee and physician satisfaction.

Facilities support optimal clinical and information technology.

  • The design creates awareness of high-touch and high-tech care and encourages the interface between compassion and state-of-the art technology.
  • The building is designed to allow advances in technology that enable quality care and services.

Community needs, population demands, and hospital and community heritage determine the design.

  • The facility is confidential, private, welcoming, attractive and conducive to well-being.
  • The campus incorporates water features, natural sunlight, native landscape and gardens to generate warmth to balance high-tech, clinical settings.
  • The architecture reflects the history and culture of Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley.
  • The facility is considerate of impairments and is aging-friendly.

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