KIMBALL -- Architecture and medical care met when the Kimball Health Center was designed.

CMBA Architects architect Jim Brisnehan recently talked about the design of the Kimball facility. He said it was designed with the patient in mind.

"A lot of it is just really coming down to 'way-finding' as best we talk about it. If you're familiar with the facility, you walk inside the front door, turn to your left and there's the clinic," Brisnehan said.

He said the facility is designed with a patient's confidentiality, and medical service, as priorities. 

"It's an easy check-in process and then it's a few steps back to the treatment space. It's few steps for the providers as well. We really want to minimize the fatigue on everybody involved. So, it's really about being a flexible space and a space that's really functional, and that people can get around and move without being on full public display," Brisnehan said.

He said the design involves patient confidentiality and HIPPA.

"If you're at all familiar with the old facility there in Kimball, it was this long public corridor and anywhere you had to go you had to go down a long corridor. You'd run into doctors, you'd run into staff, you'd run into your neighbor and everything else, even if you're in there for just a simple procedure. We really tried to separate things out, but make ... get functional adjacenies so that if you're going to the lab from the clinic, it's just a couple of steps across the hall," he said.

Brisnehan has been with CMBA Architects for about 25 years. He said they do a lot of health care designs. When doing a health facility design, they work to do what a community wants, he said.