Location: Clinton, Missouri
Year Completed: 2016
Size: 93,000 SF

HMN Architects have worked with Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare since 2000. HMN continued their partnership by providing full architectural and interior design services for an outpatient expansion. The 93,000 SF expansion included a new emergency department, imaging center, registration, cardiac rehab, surgery expansion, and a two-story lobby with a bistro that serves Starbucks products.

After those departments were moved into their new spaces, extensive remodeling began in the vacated space. Some of the departments that will benefit from the remodels include human resources, some business offices, respiratory therapy, pharmacy, lab, IT, finance, education, food and nutritional services as well as development and communications.

The surgery expansion consisted of six new operating rooms, up from four previously, and one of the largest, most technologically advanced surgery suites anywhere in the region. The new operating rooms accommodate new and additional surgical procedures with a quicker turnaround time between surgical cases.

The imaging department houses services such as X-Ray, CT scan, MRI, mammography, ultrasound, nuclear medicine and PET scan in one location instead of across the hospital, like they used to be.

The new emergency department provides more room for the staff as they move around quickly while trying to provide the best patient care. The new, larger space is much better when it comes to functionality.

Cardiopulmonary rehab offers patients the best view anywhere in the facility with floor-to-ceiling windows, where two of the walls provide natural light and bring cheer to the space. The space includes an integrated walking track encircling eight pieces of equipment.

Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare was a well-designed facility from a functional standpoint. The existing departments and ancillary spaces were efficient and compact. However, growing demand for services has necessitated the master planning effort in order to define reasonable strategies for adding new square footage. One of the biggest advantages the new expansion brought to the hospital staff, patients and their visitors was simply convenience. Our priority, alongside the hospital’s, was to ensure we have created a space where all individual outpatient services were closely connected as far as distance was concerned.