Edward Tucker Architects has partnered with Kings Daughter’s Medical Center to design the Central Sterile Processing Department. The project covers 20,000 square feet of renovated hospital space. Completed with a budget of $9.5 million, the Central Sterile Department will provide sterile equipment for 10 general surgery O.R.’s and 3 cystoscopy rooms. The space was finished with updated staff lockers and break space, increased storage for supplies, and a flow of work to create seamless movement of equipment out of the department.

The Outpatient Medical Center for Cabell Huntington Hospital is a six-floor, multiple occupancy outpatient medical building. The building, approximately 78,000 square feet, connects to the existing parking structure via elevated pedestrian bridges to improve access and limit traffic issues.

The building includes a variety of outpatient treatment suites, including medical imaging (mammography, x-ray, CT, and MRI), laboratory testing, internal medicine, neurology, and physical therapy. One floor is dedicated to outpatient Endoscopy with 4 Procedure Rooms and one Major Procedure Room.

The site for the building is in Hamor Village, a local shopping plaza. The clean, white, exterior cladding of brick and metal panels serves as a bright background for rainbow-patterned, vertical steel louvers that wrap around the building. The louvers are positioned to reduce heat gain through the large windows that allow for views and daylight from the interior. A small green space was included for the dentistry staff’s pets, adding to the fun, unexpected design.

The client requested exciting patterns and vibrant colors to create a fun, comfortable and welcoming space for patients and staff. The 8,157 square foot, two story building has eight hygiene bays and eight operatory bays, each featuring a large window. The hygiene area is open, with colorful, suspended resinous panels defining semi-private treatment areas. Operatory bays are enclosed with solid walls, with storage and handwashing nooks facing the hallway. The floor plan is configured with a central, linear sterilization area accessed from both the hygiene and operatory bays. One, enclosed hygiene and operatory bay was designed to meet the needs of all patients. The dentist’s office is placed on a corner within the operatory suite, with interior glass to allow for observation. Other staff offices are located in the center of the plan, facilitating access and flow.

The second floor of the building is entirely dedicated to staff space, including a changing area with laundry facilities and shower, and a large, open break room with kitchen, dining and living zones.

The building is served by a geothermal, water source heat pump system. The hydronic system and heat pumps are tied to 9, 400-foot-deep geothermal wells. Heat is removed from the building and transferred into the wellfield in the summer and absorbed from the wellfield and put back into the building during the winter. The system is easy to maintain over time with no boilers, chillers, or cooling towers to maintain and replace.

The design team was challenged to renovate an existing, vacant building into an accessible service hub, bringing together behavioral, social and medical resources from the community to deliver care to individuals in every stage of addiction treatment and recovery.

The outpatient medical facility serves as a single regional referral point to assess patients following discharge from local emergency rooms and inpatient detox units and by referral from quick response and other emergency medical response teams.

The project’s program included a waiting area, children’s playroom, on-site pharmacy, clinical area, group therapy rooms, offices and staff meeting areas.

The clinical space included a small lab, blood draw area, nurse station, and exam rooms.

The design services for the project included assisting the client with the selection and purchase of furnishings and signage, creating a cohesive design palette and supporting the functional needs for each space.

Marshall Health renovated an existing office building to expand their services to the Teays Valley community in 2017.

The design team was challenged to convert an existing 51,000 sf office building into an outpatient medical facility. The program included a central lab and x-ray suite, along with general adult medicine, pediatrics, a women’s center, medical and surgical specialties, cardiology, neurology, endoscopy, and a sleep lab. Shared waiting areas and registration were provided on each floor, and a cafe was provided on the ground level. The new use for the existing building also necessitated an addition with two elevators, and a patient drop-off canopy.

The design team coordinated all aspects of the project, from space planning and construction documents to furniture and finish selections. The project was delivered for approximately $105 per square foot.

Completed in 2011, this 10,300 SF Rural Health & Clinical Education Center expands both health care services and career training opportunities in a rural and underserved region in West Virginia. With collaboration among community leaders, a major university’s medical school and the local hospital’s foundation, much-needed primary care services are provided to the Logan County region. A two story scheme was selected both to preserve available land for future growth and to give the building greater presence.

The main entry faces west to the vehicle arrival point, and together with the elevator and stair core are located to tie into a future addition to the south. Facing east to the highway, a large window element expresses the community/conference room that will be on the Second Floor when it is completed. The Center’s primary exterior cladding of fiber-cement panels are sourced from 20% recycled materials.  Stone accents soften the palette, which seeks to harmonize with the site while forming a completely modern composition.

This new 24,000 square foot Integrated Health Center integrates physical, mental and oral health as well as pharmacy services to provide a single access point for patients. Proximity is critical to the integration of behavioral healthcare with primary healthcare services because patients will cross-access services in one stop that they might otherwise ignore were a second trip required.

To blend the building’s mass with its site, the 2 story building stretches parallel to the slope and the roof form approximates the site contour.  The 3 story entry connects the site’s upper and lower parking levels with a monumental stair that connects the primary/behavioral health level with the dental health suite and administrative offices above.  Daylight illuminates the entry and stair. The dental suite includes 5 operatories, exam, x-ray, lab, and provider offices. A boardroom sized to accommodate Valley Health’s large, community-based board is situated in a cantilevered window bay.

Our firm served as the lead grant administrator, architect, and interior designer for the project, which was completed in 2011.   Although not a LEED certified building, many LEED fundamentals related to energy conservation and sourcing of local materials were incorporated into the design.  The energy efficient green roof garden was the first in the Tri-state region.