Bassett Healthcare

Nestled into the embankment of the Susquehanna River, the 140,000 sf clinic was designed to use its hillside location to minimize the building’s mass in juxtaposition to adjacent two- and three-story historic buildings. Two stories are built into the hillside, while three stories are terraced above grade. A 15,000 sf power plant, also below grade, connects the clinic and existing buildings via service tunnel. The Center features a variety of specialty clinics, including family care, ophthalmology, pediatrics, otolaryngology, psychiatry, radiation therapy, laboratories, and imaging. A central common space functions as the building’s principal organizing element and a focal point for patients, affording views across the river to the surrounding countryside. The center’s modular-designed outpatient clinics emphasizes the use of repetitive exam rooms and nursing station layouts – enabling individual clinics to expand into adjacent space to meet changes in service utilization and demand. The selective use of marble, natural wood, coffered ceilings, indirect lighting, and display of regional folk art and photography creates an atmosphere of restraint and refinement, more commonly associated with an elegant hotel rather than a healthcare institution.