WNPC Orlando Staff Wellness Pavilion
The Staff Wellness Pavilion at Doc Weston's PH is a standalone single-story structure at the far end of the campus, separated from the patient-facing Main Street corridor by the garden. It follows the Baltimore model -- break room, quiet/nap room, exercise area, meditation/prayer room, therapy/counseling room, on-call rooms, and limited residential units -- adapted for Florida architecture and climate.
The Orlando pavilion's defining feature is its screened lanai -- a covered, screened-in outdoor living space that is a standard element of Florida residential architecture, adapted here for staff use. The lanai provides outdoor break space year-round without the mosquitoes, no-see-ums, and love bugs that make unscreened outdoor dining in Central Florida a losing battle from April through October. Staff eat lunch on the lanai. They take their coffee outside. They sit in the screened air and look at the garden and decompress from the clinical intensity of the Main Street corridor without being bitten, soaked by afternoon thunderstorms, or blasted by heat, because the lanai's roof, screens, and ceiling fans manage all three.
The residential component -- on-call rooms and limited studio apartments -- follows the WNPC standard. Florida's lower cost of living compared to NYC and Boston means the housing subsidy stretches further, and the studio apartments at the Orlando site are slightly larger than their northern counterparts because the real estate permits it.
The therapy/counseling room serves the specific emotional demands of working at the Pine Hills site -- a patient population carrying not just chronic illness but the weight of living in a stigmatized, underserved community, and the staff who absorb that weight alongside the clinical work.