The new building features wings located to the south and east of the existing hospital connected by a circular glass corridor that wraps around a 220' x 110' central courtyard featuring a fountain, sculptured brick walls, and a sculpture by artist Marshall Fredericks. The south wing adds space for outpatient diagnostic and treatment areas for the 12,000-sf Barbara Ann Karmenos Regional Cancer Center on the ground level, the expanded surgery department on level one, and a mechanical penthouse on level two. The three-story east wing houses administrative support at the ground level, the obstetrics department expansion on level one, and the new ambulatory care center on level two.

The ambulatory care center offers a consolidated location for up to 40 specialty care physicians in a multi-practice clinic setting, with expanded diagnostic treatment options to complement the hospital's current level of patient care.

Public spaces are provided on each level where the east and west wings intersect. The spaces are designed to be immediately recognizable as the public zone, and serve as a clear wayfinding anchor to outpatients and their families.

The new Women's Center and expanded obstetrics department includes 19 single labor/delivery/recovery/postpartum (LDRP) rooms, three handicapped-accessible LDR/LDRP rooms, seven short-stay patient rooms, two rooms for surgical or high risk deliveries, and a 12-bassinet newborn nursery, expandable to 15. Nurses' and doctors' support spaces ring the two nurseries.

Removed from the clinical areas, but still nearby, are physicians' spaces including lockers and lounges, followed by the OB resident's sleep room, the multi-purpose consultation room, additional sleep rooms, administrative offices, and staff lockers. The adjacent family waiting room relocates to the existing family education room, allowing space for the planned pediatric nursing area.

The operating suite includes the renovation of the existing operating rooms as well as construction of new space adjacent to the surgical suite. The area includes a surgery waiting area linked by elevator to the main outpatient entrance/reception area. Preoperative testing and holding areas, nearly doubled in size and comprised of 14 private patient alcoves, accommodate patients in post-anesthesia recovery and second stage recovery.

Renovated operating rooms are clustered along an H-shaped sterile corridor and share access to one of two sterile cores. Upon preparation for surgery, patients are close to the appropriate procedure room--cystoscopy, endoscopy, or minor procedure--which are not located on the sterile corridor. To separate surgery patients from all other patients, traffic traverses only the surgical corridor. Likewise, post-surgery patients also return through the sterile corridor and enter directly into the primary post-anesthesia recovery area.

Also upgraded are the central sterile department, x-ray film processing area, and frozen section laboratory. The project also adds a satellite pharmacy for easy stocking of anesthesia carts. Anesthesiology sleep rooms have been added, allowing ready access by both the surgery and obstetrics departments.