(St. Charles interior rendering | photo courtesy of the Neenan Company)
The Neenan Company, a fully integrated design-build firm based in Fort Collins, Colo., is pleased to announce the opening of St. Charles Health System’s new 62,000-square-foot critical access hospital, which will replace Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Prineville, Ore. The official grand opening ceremony is scheduled to take place on September 12.
The Neenan Company served as the design-build partner for the project. The new replacement facility includes a primary care medical home at the core, comingled with a critical access hospital. The critical access hospital’s features include an emergency department, imaging and laboratory services, two surgical suites and a procedure room, inpatient beds, physical and respiratory therapy, and was designed to accommodate 12 primary care practitioners and visiting specialists. Two onsite residential units were also included for visiting practitioners.
“The Neenan Company’s primary goal for this project was to deliver a building that enables St. Charles Health System to better perform its essential healthcare services and serve the needs of the surrounding community,” said David Shigekane, president of The Neenan Company. “The new facility was designed to provide a campus that will meet the industry’s and community’s growing needs for years to come.”
The Neenan Company used a strong thermal envelope and efficient systems to greatly improve the facility’s efficiency in comparison to the systems used in the current facility. Through its design, The Company was able to reduce space and staff needs while increasing flexibility and capacity for patient care, at a lesser cost than other design options, by delivering shared emergency department space, pre- and post-operative space, and observation patient rooms.
The facility will equip staff with better tools for diagnosis through use of the new imaging, lab, cardio-pulmonary and physical therapy spaces. The care team space is flexible and adaptable to the ever-changing medical workforce. It allows for different generations of caregivers to work collaboratively while maximizing the benefits of their individual working styles.
The new facility was constructed specifically with the Prineville community in mind. The campus is located on a 20-acre site purchased from Ochoco Lumber Company, and has been transformed into a key community space providing hospital patients and staff with closer access to town than allowed with the current facility’s landlocked position. The facility was designed to be “right-sized” based on access, population, healthcare needs and caregiver availability.
The surrounding community is represented within the design, which incorporates local and regional building materials representative of the textures, materials, colors and aesthetics of the Prineville area.
The Neenan Company recently broke ground on its second project with St. Charles Health System – the addition to and renovation of the St. Charles Madras critical access hospital. The updated facility, located in Madras is scheduled for completion in early 2017. The hospital will significantly improve the utilization of its emergency department, surgery and imaging by delivering an emergency department that is three times larger. This added space will allow for a higher volume of surgery, improve access for emergency obstetrics and gynecology (OB) in surgery, and provide the public with better access to imaging services.
The Neenan Company is a fully integrated design-build firm that specializes in the architecture and construction of commercial, education and healthcare facilities throughout the United States. The firm is based in Colorado and was a 2013 recipient of the national American Business Ethics Award.
