May 2010 HGF Designs New Mount Saint Joseph Nursing Home Herman Gibans Fodor, Inc. is designing a 100-bed replacement facility for the Mount Saint Joseph Nursing Home in Euclid, Ohio for the Sister’s of St. Joseph of St. Mark. The proposed one-story building with partial basement will have approximately 93,000 square feet. The configuration of the new building takes advantage of the hilltop site adjacent to the Euclid Creek Reservation of the Metro Parks with beautiful views of Lake Erie. Construction will begin in the autumn of 2010 with completion scheduled for the autumn of 2011. The design of the building’s exterior is based on the architecture of the Black Forest region of Germany, the original home of the Sister’s of St. Joseph of St. Mark. The exterior will feature a palette of stone veneer, decorative siding, dimensional asphalt shingles and standing seam metal roofing. A bell tower and distinctive chapel with a rose window, along with a generously landscaped prayer garden, will welcome visitors at the building entrance. All of the resident rooms, common areas and care spaces will be located on the ground floor. The resident rooms are distributed in ten-bed neighborhoods that are divided into a sixty-bed long term care unit and a forty-bed short term care unit. The ground floor also includes the lobby, ample therapy suite, activity room, administrative wing and the nuns’ residence. The highlight of the ground floor is a chapel that will include restored artifacts and objects from the original chapel including the altar, Stations of the Cross, pipe organ and stained glass windows. The lower level will house a receiving area, central laundry, kitchen, maintenance shop, staff dining and locker rooms. A service elevator and dumbwaiter will serve both the main and lower levels. A chute will direct soiled linen into the central laundry.