Throughout Crawford Long’s new hospital and medical office tower, the corridor lights are gentle. Long fluorescent bulbs are shielded inside wide, A-shaped fixtures that diffuse the light and spread it thorougly yet softly around the hallways.
The effect, when one is walking upright, is easy to miss. But imagine being wheeled around on a gurney, lying face-up and staring at the ceiling, anxious thoughts of an imminent and possibly quite invasive medical procedure flying around one’s head. At a time like that, small comforts go a long way.
Crawford Long Hospital is embarking on an ambitious redevelopment plan--one of the largest hospital construction projects ever in Georgia. Emory administrators announced last Wednesday that the 90-year-old hospital will join the ranks of downtown and midtown businesses who are changing Atlanta's cityscape with the construction of a 500,000-square-foot, six-story diagnostic and treatment center topped by a 16-story medical office building