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Healthcare Design		OWH brings a specialized understanding of healthcare design to our work. Our experience ranges from small to large, public and private institutions. Our work covers specialized renovations, additions for imaging, linear accelerators to outpatient clinics, medical office space, and hospital replacement projects. Our focus is to meet the needs of our clients, and to design informed, well coordinated solutions for their problems. We work closely with our clients developing a level of trust and reliability which provides for sustained professional relationships.

		Mercy Medical Center Fort Scott, Kansas OWH provided Mercy Health System of Kansas with complete architectural and design services for the new Mercy Medical Center in Fort Scott, Kansas. The $32M, 175,000 square foot facility provides this rural community with state-of-the-art health care.

		BJCHC Missouri Baptist Medical Center - Strategic Campus Plan Phase 1 The Strategic Campus Plan included a $34M addition to the existing commmunity hospital and a $21M site and internal reorganization. Architects of record, the addition included a cancer center, oncology center, adult and pediatric emergency departments, cardiovascular ICU and special cardiac care patient floor, an ortho/rehab patient floor and two med/surg patient floors. The addition also provided for the realignment of several key services within the existing hospital including cardiovascular services, diagnostic and imaging services, main lobby and registration guest services and a new gift shop. Within the cardiovascular services, a new cath lab was constructed over an existing roof. Phase 2 also included the complete relocation and renovation of the Medical Center’s clinical laboratory.

		Missouri Baptist Medical Center Lab Renovation The lab relocation consisted of the planning and design for relocation of the 20,500 square foot clinical lab on the ground floor of the hospital. The lab was planned as an open core lab concept with a state of the art automated line technology for chemistry and hemotology assays. Due to the nature of the activities undertaken in this lab, the majority of the lab space was required to meet BioSafety Level Two Criteria. The TB Lab is required to meet BioSafety Level Three Criteria. The lab also houses a DNA testing facility.

		BJCHC Barnes Jewish St. Peters Oncology Center Construction of a 14,000 square foot, single story building with a linear accelerator vault adjacent to the Ambulatory Surgery Center that provides full oncology services including medical radiation. The facilities to include registration, exam rooms for medical oncology and radiation oncology visits, treatment areas for chemotherapy, dressing rooms, waiting areas, linear accelerator, mold room, simulator, offices, resource area, and conference room. The facility was planned to double in size.

		Saint Louis University School of Medicine OWH received the Urban Development Award from the City of St. Louis Heritage and Urban Design Commission for this addition to the St. Louis University Medical Center campus. The addition, which houses an outpatient clinic for MRI and PET imaging, cyclotron and radio parmaceutical lab, was cited for its sensitive integration into the urban fabric. The treatment rooms are subterranean, and the reception area roof structure forms a forecourt transition between St. Louis' busy Grand Avenue and the Medical Center’s Desloge Tower. OWH was also responsible for planning and programming the total renovation of the 250,000 square foot Firmin-Desloge Tower at the Medical Center into departmental medical offices, clinical laboratory, and support space for the Hospital. The work included coordination with 35 department entities, hospital administration and St. Louis University. OWH planned a five-phase construction plan to allow 66% occupancy of the existing building at all times during the construction period.

		VA Ambulatory Care Addition / Columbia, Missouri The 106,000 square foot, 2-story ambulatory care addition provides a new main entry to the Hospital and reorganizes public traffic and parking to simplify site circulation. The project includes general ambulatory care clinics and specialty areas for eye, ENT, endoscopy, and pulmonary medicine. OWH provided planning and full design services for the new addition as well the associated renovation of the existing facility.