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When Kendall McCaugherty was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of bone cancer a few years ago, he didn't have much time to think about what he'd want his new hospital to look like.
Instead, he focused on what it would look like, the New York Daily News reports.
That's when McCaugherty and his team at Gensler came up with the name Crystal Clinic.
The 34,000-square-foot facility in Akron, Ohio, is designed to look like a "museum of bones," as the Daily News puts it, with a number of special features, including a skeletal structure that acts as a kind of skeleton for patients with osteoporosis.
There's also a dedicated "bone whisperer" where patients can hear each other's voices.
The idea for the center came from McCaugherty's own mother, who had been diagnosed with a rare form of breast cancer at the same time as her daughter, the Daily News notes.
"I wanted to create a place where my daughter could hear me," McCaugherty tells the Akron Beacon Journal.
"I wanted to create a place where she could hear me."
The idea was to create a space that would allow patients to be as active as possible in their recovery,
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