{"id":38217,"date":"2025-02-12T18:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swopehealth.org\/?p=38217"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:26:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:26:47","slug":"swope-health-kansas-city-kansas-womens-and-childrens-center-request-for-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swopehealth.org\/swope-health-kansas-city-kansas-womens-and-childrens-center-request-for-qualifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Swope Health Kansas City Kansas Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Center Request for Qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Swope Health, in partnership with Kansas City Kansas Community College, and Community America Credit Union is building a five-story, approximately 95,000 square foot Community Education, Health and Wellness Center in downtown Kansas City, Kansas, at 7th<\/sup> Street and State Avenue.\u00a0 This project represents an investment of over $55 million in downtown KCK.\u00a0 Swope Health will open a Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Center on the entire fifth floor in approximately 16,500 square of space.\u00a0 Services will include women\u2019s care, pediatrics, dental care, radiology, mental healthcare and supportive programming, such as prenatal group classes.\u00a0 It is estimated that the new clinic will serve up to 6,000 patients annually.<\/p>\n

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Swope Health has partnered with the Kansas City Zoo to feature a zoological theme throughout the floor and promote the Zoo\u2019s mission of education and conservation within the community.\u00a0 The theming will be realized through two different approaches within the Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n

1. Within the children\u2019s portion of the public waiting room and within the Children\u2019s Clinic, the project will utilize large scale environmental graphics to be applied via vinyl wall coverings to wall surfaces prepared by others. Printing and installation of the vinyl wall graphics will be provided by others through McCown Gordon\u2019s construction contract.<\/p>\n

2. Within the Women\u2019s Clinic and at the Dental Exam Rooms within the Children\u2019s Clinic, framed art photography and fine art will be used to reinforce the zoological theme of the floor.<\/p>\n

It is intended to utilize graphic artwork and art photography in a fun and playful, but sophisticated way within the Children\u2019s Clinic to create an animal themed environment and reinforce the partnership with the Kansas City Zoo.\u00a0 The graphic artwork should not be of a \u201cchildish\u201d or \u201ccartooned\u201d style, but should have a fun and sophisticated feel, celebrating interesting and engaging aspects of the animal kingdom in alignment with the Kansas City Zoo\u2019s mission of education and conservation.\u00a0 The large mural in the children\u2019s waiting room is intended to represent a map of the Kansas City Zoo and provide a \u201cseek-and-find\u201d opportunity for children, both within the mural itself and to also reference other animals represented throughout the rest of the clinic.<\/p>\n

It is intended for Women\u2019s Clinic to utilize framed art work to reinforce the zoological theme in a refined and mature way that will differentiate the Women\u2019s Clinic from the Children\u2019s Clinic.\u00a0 These two areas of the Center should have a different character and feel.<\/p>\n

Desired Services:<\/strong>\u00a0 Graphic Design & Art Curation \u2013 we seek an up-and-coming graphic designer and art curator to use inspiration from the Zoo to create original graphics including a primary wall mural in the main lobby, framed art, and wall murals and individual graphics for hallways and exam rooms.\u00a0 The graphic designer and art curator will work closely with Swope Health, the architecture firm, PGAV, and the construction manager, McCownGordon.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Partners providing qualifications in response to this RFQ may pursue one or both categories of work including graphic design and\/or art curation. \u00a0Submissions must clearly identify the services that are being proposed.
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Deliverables \u2013 Environmental Graphics:<\/strong>\u00a0 original artwork in a digital format that is acceptable to the Owner, of the resolution required to print at the intended scales.\u00a0 Artwork will be printed and installed by others.<\/p>\n

Deliverables \u2013 Art Curation:<\/strong>\u00a0 selected partner will curate art photography and animal themed art work for review and final selection by the Owner.\u00a0 The selected art curator will arrange for and facilitate purchase of the artwork by the Owner and will have the artwork framed (framing and mats to be reviewed and approved by the Owner), and will also provide for final installation in the Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Center.<\/p>\n

About Swope Health:<\/strong>\u00a0 Swope Health is the Kansas City region\u2019s largest community health center, serving over 54,000 patients annually in Missouri and Kansas.\u00a0 With a mission to offer our patients care that is accessible, comprehensive and highest quality, we offer primary care, women\u2019s care, dental, mental health, pharmacy, lab, radiology and other services.\u00a0 Please visit SwopeHealth.org for more information.<\/p>\n

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