In this month’s Healthcare Design Magazine cover story, Principal Anthony Treu—alongside Dr. Suresh Ramalingam, Executive Director of Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University and Gil May at May Architecture—discuss how Winship Cancer Institute at Emory Midtown embraces a new model of care “never before seen or imagined.”

As the only Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the state of Georgia, the 450,000-square-foot facility brings care directly to patients and offers a new approach to the concept of community.

Through a collaboration with over 200 stakeholders, including patients, clinicians and staff, we organized a care center arranged not around equipment and departments, but around “care communities,” each dedicated to treating a specific cancer type.

“The cancer center is part of this community, and it’s not a place of illness. It’s a place of treatment and health,” Treu says. “We wanted people to be able to see into the building. There is nothing to hide.”