Wyandot Memorial Hospital Addition

Wyandot Memorial Hospital has serviced the Upper Sandusky area since 1950. The facility provides inpatient and outpatient care with a 24-hour a-day emergency department. The renovation includes a 29,500-square-foot, three-story medical office building with a new sleep lab, nuclear medicine lab, physical therapy center, and a relocated wellness center. An 8,500-square-foot two-story addition expands the emergency department. A 2,000-square-foot atrium was added to the existing facility. A 43-foot-tall iconic masonry tower is located between the new medical office building and the emergency department expansion and helps patients find the main entrance. The hospital added three covered drop-off canopies at the new facility and one covered drop-off canopy at the existing facility. Renovation in the existing facility includes adding an MRI room, a PET/CT scan room, and additional medical equipment suspended from the ceiling. The medical office building was redesigned with a ground floor reinforced concrete two-way slab on deep foundations after the initial earthwork encountered large pockets of highly compressible organic material. The design team worked with the owner, contractor, and fabricator to provide cost estimates and near-daily design releases for two weeks so that the construction continued without losing time on the schedule.