Patient Tower at Panama City Hospital Completed

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Design and consulting firm Gresham, Smith and Partners announced the completion of the Patient Tower and Central Energy Plant for Bay Medical Center in Panama City, Fla.  The five-story, 200,000-square-foot tower, which Gresham designed, contains 144 private beds and replaces the medical intensive care and surgical intensive care units.   

 

To make future expansion of the tower possible, Gresham included shelled areas on two floors to allow for expansion of the emergency department and surgery area. The tower also features a public courtyard with an outdoor garden, providing natural light in the center of the building.

 

The tower is the first phase of Gresham’s strategic master plan for the Bay Medical Center. Gresham plans to design the second phase of the center’s renovations which will include an expansion of the emergency and surgical departments, renovation of the nursing units, expansion of the parking areas and future renovation and expansion of the diagnostic and treatment departments.

 

Gresham also provided design services to a recently completed 45,000-square-foot oncology center at the John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital in Thomasville, Georgia. and a 130,500-square-foot patient tower addition to the Thomas Hospital in Fairhope, Alabama.