Titled ‘Positive Thinking’, the plan was about providing health care in the best interests of patient and staff alike. I drew up a grandiose plan-having no idea how grandiose at the time-that I felt ready to commit myself to. “In my last year at the Medical College of Virginia, I began working on a line of thought about my dreams to improve health care that would shape the rest of my life. The T eaching C enter and Clinic building is planned in 25,000 square feet and in three stories with passive solar construction and green roof features. It will serve the global community, working with participants to find a language for their own desires in care and their own designs for implementation as well as build care systems that are socially responsible and financially just. Teaching programs will propose change in ‘care systems ’, particularly focused on health care, but also on education care, justice care, and environmental care. The Teaching Center and Clinic will have 2 meeting halls: large auditorium (50 people) and small hall (20 people), a small media station, 6 classrooms, a blackbox performance hall: with stage and seating for 30 people, an institutional kitchen and dining hall, serving up to 30 people, 3 cafes, one per floor, a variety of sleeping accommodations (up to 30 people), 6 bathrooms, with a variety of shower and bath facilities, media studio, art studio, exercise room, a for the Clinic: consultation room, small examination room, waiting room and an Outdoor Community “Hob-Nobbing” Porch. They will also be direct to specific communities, for example the combat Veterans of West Virginia.Ĭonstructing the Teaching Center and Clinic The Teaching Center will educate visiting practitioners to create their ideal design and offer programs in caring, self-caring, clowning, social change to local and international participants. The hospital will deliver care in a context that models our ideal design. The Gesundheit hospital will embody our activist philosophy: a free, communal style hospital, nested in a community ecovillage, and connected to the Teaching Center.
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We offer caring and healing (humanitarian clowning, global outreach), teaching and lecturing (Teaching Center, educational curriculum, Patch Adams’ lecturing).Īs a hospital building-a hospital withwalls- a Clinic, built together with a Teaching Center, will be the first step towards the final 44 bed community hospital building on our land in rural West Virginia. Healing is to be a loving human interchange not a business transaction.Īs a hospital project-a hospital without walls–we have been active all over the world since 1971.
We reframe ‘hospital’ as an integration of learning and caring nested within an intentional community.
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