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Array Architects is and has always been a highly specialized healthcare architectural, interior design and facilities masterplanning firm. The co-founders of the firm, Peter Bentivegna, Douglas Lindsay, Udo Maron and Anthony Merlino, came together in the early 1970s to form the in house architectural and facilities planning arm of American Medicorp, Inc. (AMI). In 1978 Humana acquired AMI and rather than locate to Humana's new headquaters in Louisville, Kentucky, the four began the in house architectural and facilities masterplanning group Medifac, within the newly formed healthcare management firm Mediq. In 1983 they departed Medifac and formed BLM whose mission was to provide healthcare architectural and facilities masterplanning services to hospitals and medical centers across the nation. Shortly thereafter, Pat Malick joined the firm to provided interior design services. The firm grew to 25 staff over the next 18 years. In 2001 Carl Davis joined the firm as Senior VP and CFO as part of Peter Bentivegna's retirememnt plan at which time Lindsay assumed the role of CEO. Under his leadership the firm undertook an internal strategic assessment to validate it’s mission, vision and organizational structure. In 2005 Array Healthcare Facilities Solutiomns (Array HFS) emerged with it’s new name and brand and a mission to provide remarkable, operationally efficient and business justified solutions for their healthcare clients. The firm's sucess during this time could be traced to the principals deep exposure to hospital operations while part of AMI, a for profit hospital system. Upon Lindsay's reitrment in 2007, Davis assumed the role of President and CEO and began to tranistion the firm to a knowledge based healthcare design practice that strives for continuious improvement. As part of this initiative, the firm changed its name in 2012 to Array Architects to better reflect the full breath of healthcare design services it offered. Today (2015), Array has grown to six office locations throughout the country and is recognized as the largest healthcare only design firm in the US. The success and uniqueness of Array Architects can be attributed to the specialized exposure the co-founders enjoyed from physicians, pharmacologists, surgeons, radiologists, nurse managers and industrial engineering specialists who were part of the conceptual planning and design of hospitals. This experience provided insight into hospital operations that they have passed on to the firms currente generation of healthcare designers.