WOMEN’S WELLNESS AND BREAST CARE, Watertown, N.Y.
RETROFIT TEAM
ARCHITECTS: SLAM Collaborative and Aubertine and Currier Architects
GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Purcell Construction Corp.
MATERIALS
When a big-box store moved out of the community, Samaritan Medical Center purchased the 80,000-square-foot retail space with ample on-grade parking. The location of the property was on a major north-south route into town and near other scattered hospital services.
The open parking leads directly into a glazed public gallery across the front of the building, providing discrete entryways into the individual service pods that are color coded by service. The individually contained service pods streamline staff movements for improved patient treatment times.
The design team’s philosophy was based around a Planetree Person Centered Care model with the focus on the environment supporting the health of a person by providing a calming and welcoming space to ease the level of stress sometimes encountered with medical visits. Biophilic graphic patterns and natural materials, including stone fireplaces in gowned waiting spaces, provide a level of comfort during visits.
The following is a sampling of materials used in the project:
WINDOWS: Tubelite
INTERIOR GLASS: Skyline Design
CARPET: Biodiversity Collection from Interface and Kinetex from J&J Flooring
FLOORING: Mannington, Amtico and Nora
LIGHTING: Avalon from Barbican and Heracleum from YLighting
WALLCOVERINGS: Glamdecor from Glamora and Symphony from WolfGordon
THE RETROFIT
Samaritan Medical Center opened its new Women’s Wellness and Breast Care location in November 2019. New York State provided a $9.8 million Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Program grant to help make the project possible. Located in the Samaritan Health and Wellness Plaza, the new location combines many women’s health services, including internal medicine, breast health, cardiology, dermatology, ear/ nose, gastroenterology, neurology, mental health and gynecology services into one convenient location.