Conway Medical Center has asked Wilkerson Associates Architects to prepare a Master Plan for their facility and address several areas of concern. The hospital requested an evaluation of all service lines in relation to the rapidly increasing demographics in the area. The Master Plan approach utilized is one of Capacity Analysis dovetailed with Facility Planning.

One important result of this Master Plan is a 3-story Bed Wing featuring 64 large, all private patient rooms to create quality patient care spaces for the staff while providing dedicated spaces for families and visitors in patient rooms and public areas. The nursing units will minimize travel distances from nursing stations to patients and supplies, maintain critical sight lines for the nursing staff, and maximize patient safety through innovative design solutions. The patient rooms are modular and can easily be retrofitted in the future should patient mix change. The overall floor plan is divided into groups of 8-bed nursing pods surrounding a central core of support areas.

Another aspect of the Master Plan, a 3-story Administration Annex, will be located across an internal drive on the campus. It will be connected to the new Bed Wing via a covered breezeway.

The new Administrative Services Building is located across an internal drive from the Hospital. It is a 3-story structure that houses a new Board Room, Accounting, Administration, Marketing, and Foundation Departmental offices, as well as a large Classroom and a Multipurpose Auditorium capable of seating 100.

The third floor will be left as shell space for future use. The architectural features complement the hospital’s new 3-story Bed Wing and existing facility while providing a cost effective alternative to housing administrative functions within the institutional occupancy.

This project consists of new construction of 21,400 square feet plus interior renovations to the Moses Cone Regional Cancer Center located on the campus of Wesley Long Memorial Hospital. The existing building is a three-story structure connected to Wesley Long via an enclosed corridor between the respective main lobby areas.

Using multi colored precast concrete panels, the west-facing wall will become an artistic “canvas” creating a strikingly fresh, modern image for the Cancer Center. A new internally illuminated glass stair tower will accent the front façade of the building and serve to distinguish the entry of the Cancer Center from that of Wesley Long Hospital. The expansion will be constructed in the adjacent parking lot without significant interruption to ongoing operations.

The Cancer Center expansion will focus on developing a new Breast Center located on the main level. The expansion will double the family waiting, expand the current Lab and Pharmacy and provide more patient privacy in Chemotherapy. Renovations to Radiation Oncology will solve existing workflow and patient privacy issues.

A new High Dose Radiation Suite will be constructed in existing shell space. Renovations to the second floor will expand educational classrooms and conference space, feature a 120-seat auditorium, and Patient Services area overlooking the two-story Atrium Lobby below. Patient Services will include Pastoral Care, Psychological, Nutritional and Genetic Counseling and a patient / family education library.

The Surgical Services Relocation for Northern Hospital of Surry County presented unique design challenges given the hilly terrain of the hospital campus. New construction will be on the same elevation as the Main Level of the hospital and house four Operating Rooms, Pre-Admission, Testing, PACU, Sterile Processing, Endoscopy, and OR Staff Lockers and Lounge area.

The new building will also feature on-grade access to larger Family Waiting and an expanded Day Surgery. An enclosed connector bridge provides access to the existing Hospital’s Main Lobby. A new mobile technology dock will be included as part of the addition at the rear of the facility and connected to patient care areas via an elevator.

Wilkerson Associates was asked to develop a free-standing Outpatient Diagnostics Facility as well as a Master Facility Plan for Sampson Regional Medical Center.

The diagnostics facility effectively relocates the outpatient portion of the diagnostic imaging load currently performed at the hospital to an off-campus location a few blocks away.

The facility contains an MRI, a CT, an X-Ray Room, Mammography, Ultrasound, Bone Densitometry, a Nuclear Camera, and space for future technology. The waiting and procedures areas were designed to provide maximum privacy for women’s diagnostics while allowing for an efficient use of the technology and imaging staff.

The new Women's Life Center at Cleveland Regional Medical Center is another "Center of Excellence" developed by their Strategic Plan. The new facility is a two-story structure adjacent to the front entrance of the Hospital. Another project by Wilkerson Associates Architects, Architects for the Healthcare Profession, Charlotte, NC.

Cleveland Regional Medical Center commissioned Wilkerson Associates to develop their Facility Master Plan. The plan indicated developing various "Centers of Excellence". Oncology Services is one such area that was addressed. The Medical Oncology Department was relocated to the front of the campus in the Grover Building for accessibility and given a new inviting reception / waiting area. The Radiation Oncology service was relocated from the Radiology Department to the Grover Building placing it adjacent to the new Medical Oncology Services. This fulfilled the Hospital's strategic plan to provide oncology services in a comprehensive Cancer Center.The main treatment area for outpatient chemotherapy with relaxing recliners, private treatment rooms, and exam rooms with centrally located nurses' station provide the patients and the patients' families with a comforting environment for treatment. New construction at the Radiation Oncology services includes the Linear Accelerator vault, mechanical room, and some control space for the vault. Renovation includes the Simulator with control, Dosimetry space, work/reading space, tumor registry, physician office space, conference space, three exam rooms, nurse station and various support spaces. Another project by Wilkerson Associates Architects, Architects for the Healthcare Profession, Charlotte, NC.

Wilkerson Associates utilized a strategy-based process, which incorporated statistical data and analysis to "right size" the new Emergency Department into an operationally functional design. This is to allow for increasing volumes and provide additional privacy and confidentiality to patients as well as improve the organization, flow and through-put of patients. The expanded department will include a new ambulance entrance, 24 exam rooms with 2 large dedicated trauma rooms, 4 additional trauma bays, 6 universal rooms, 12 exam rooms, and a large central nurse station with visualization of the exam room. The new ambulance entrance can accommodate 6 emergency vehicles. The existing Emergency Department will be renovated to include a new fast track unit with 10 fast track rooms, nurse station, waiting areas, administration, and 3 new triage rooms. Another project by Wilkerson Associates Architects, Architects for the Healthcare Profession, Charlotte, NC.

Cleveland Regional Medical Center is in the process of expanding their Outpatient Center. The design consolidated critical departmental relationships in a cost efficient solution by building above the new Emergency Department. A new post anesthesia care unit will be constructed in conjunction with this Outpatient Center. Another project by Wilkerson Associates Architects, Architects for the Healthcare Profession, Charlotte, NC.

The Hospital has asked Wilkerson Associates to assist them in implementing their Master Plan. The plan is to focus on Surgery, Outpatient Surgery, Emergency Dept. and Radiology with many other areas being affected also. Another project by Wilkerson Associates Architects, Architects for the Healthcare Profession, Charlotte, NC.

Morehead Memorial Hospital asked Wilkerson Associates Architects to revisit their Facility Master Plan and continue to update and refine the goals that had been put in place. One of the areas identified for additions and renovations was the Emergency Department. The new Emergency Department replaces the existing department, which allowed ease of construction phasing and kept the existing ED operational during construction.

The new ED provides thirteen new Exam Rooms around a central nurse station. The nurse station area includes a private consult/conference area, space for physicians and attendings, and various nursing support areas. A dedicated nurse station is provided for Trauma, which includes two large Trauma Rooms plus a dedicated Radiology Room, a two-station Triage area, and four Fast-Track Rooms. New registration, workroom, financial counseling areas and ample waiting with vending, and a decontamination shower at the ambulance entry are also part of the new construction. The walk-in entry and ambulance entry are distinctly separate from each other.
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Northern Hospital of Surry County commissioned Wilkerson Associates Architects to implement part of its Master Plan. The new addition provides space for a new entrance lobby, admitting and storage space below. Renovations include Medical Oncology, existing surgery support areas, medical records, gift shop, conference space, bone density and stress testing. Another project by Wilkerson Associates Architects, Architects for the Healthcare Profession, Charlotte, NC.

The CaroMont Specialty Surgery located on the campus of Gaston Memorial Hospital was expanded to include 26 new pre/post Operative Rooms and a central nurse station with a skylight bathing the area with natural light. The renovated areas include waiting, relocated PACU, vending and administration support spaces.

The exterior skin of the building was removed and the front façade replaced with a new curtain wall and skin. The canopy was demolished down to the structural steel and rebuilt with a skylight to enhance the new aesthetics of the building.