Pipestone County Medical Center Remodel and Addition

Pipestone County Medical Center Remodel and Addition

Pipestone, Minnesota

With a budget of $6 million for multiple phases of renovation and addition to the existing hospital, this project was broken up into five separate phases for design.

The phases consist of the following:

  • Remodel existing corridor including new indirect lighting and nurse call modifications
  • Renovate existing Nurse's station and elevator lobby
  • Remodel existing space for Labor, Delivery, Recovery and Postpartum (LDRP). Includes two suites and one handicap suite, a family waiting area, and nourishment kitchenette
  • Installation of a new 480/277 volt electrical service to feed the existing complex and new surgery building
  • Construction of a new surgery suite

The Pipestone project consisted of three parts: a three story surgery facility (approximately 24,000 SF), a C.T. addition (900 SF), and a 10,500 SF remodel of the of the emergency, purchasing, and administration departments. The surgery center consists primarily of surgery rooms, endoscopy, recovery, exam, treatment, physical therapy, offices, waiting, and ancillary areas. The building is served by two variable volume roof mounted air handling units which are on emergency power. Rooms are served by the air handling unit and controlled through the use of variable volume boxes. Due to high airflow rates required in most of the rooms, reheat coils were added to assist in temperature control. The surgery rooms contain a pressure controlled HVAC system to allow the rooms to become positive or negative depending on the procedures. The rooms contain a surgical air distribution system which greatly reduces the amount of 'dirty' air from being re-circulated. Supply air is HEPA filtered through the use of a dedicated supply fan. Low exhaust and return are also incorporated to also reduce the 'dirty' air from being re-circulated. A new medical gas system was added for the new hospital which included nitrous oxide, medical vacuum, medical air, waste gas, and oxygen. The new system was designed in accordance to NFPA 99. The building contained an exhaust system to assist in maintaining pressure relationships in rooms as well as serving toilet room and miscellaneous exhaust requirements.