Spokane Teaching Health Clinic is "Building of the Year" runner-up

Getting 13 percent of the votes was the $16 million Spokane Teaching Health Clinic at 624 E. Front St. on Washington State University’s Health Sciences campus in Spokane.

The 42,000-square-foot building has 58 exam rooms over two levels. It is run by Providence Health Care and supported by the consortium of Empire Health Foundation, Providence Health Care and WSU Health Sciences Spokane.

The teaching clinic allows medical residents to serve patients while health sciences students from the campus learn alongside them.

“The Spokane Teaching Health Clinic was an especially rewarding design-build process in which all team members truly collaborated,” said NAC Architecture project manager Jill Kurtz. “The facility is an innovative environment for teaching, learning, and team-based care, and we’re honored to have been part of fulfilling their mission.”

What the voters said:

• “Great building mission, getting students involved in the community.”
• “It’s a great place to work, to teach and to provide collaborative care.”
• “Beautiful structure and such a wonderful purpose: Form following function so artistically.”