Kingfisher Regional Hospital, which had been built in 1940, was no longer in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and required numerous repairs. As a result, the decision was made to construct a new facility that would better serve the community with modern equipment and improved medical care. The 57,700 square-foot rural replacement hospital facility was classified as a Critical Access Hospital. The goal of the project was to provide new facilities to meet modern patient demands, such as on-site medical imaging, Critical Care access, and other much needed services. The facility offers the full range of hospital services including a radiology/lab area, surgery, 26-bed hospital, chapel, and an emergency room.
Structural and architectural features include a dining room with a two-story volume and triangular roof, three clerestory pop-up roofs at emergency entry, emergency waiting, and administration areas, a clerestory with suspended radial soffits at the nurse’s station, and a concrete half-cylinder chapel containing a two-story volume, which provides both an architectural focal point and a structural anchor point for the dining room triangular roof. The round nurses station area is an architectural feature and focal point in the floor plan. The two-story dining room was defined by a full-height glass curtain wall on one side that required an independent structural back-up frame and by clerestory windows with rock-clad spandrels on the remaining sides. Large exterior canopies were designed for the main entrance and the emergency entrance.
Structurally, the building is a single-story, steel-framed structure composed of a metal deck on steel joist roof system that is supported by steel wide-flange girders, steel tube columns, and shallow concrete spread-and-strip footings. The exterior wall is a steel stud curtain wall system with a stone and EIFS finish. The lateral force-resisting system is steel braced frames.
Typically, product literature for surgical light fixtures assumes that the fixture will be anchored to a solid concrete slab. Since the roof structure that the surgical light fixtures were to mount to in this project was composed of light open-web steel joists and metal deck and considering the strict deflection limits required by the manufacturer for the boom-mounted surgical lights, special surgical light anchoring framing was designed and detailed.
