St. Luke's Baptist Hospital Ambulatory Surgery Center
Location: San Antonio
Client: Vanguard/Baptist Health System
Completion Date: 2005
The Ambulatory Surgery Center is the most recent of multiple projects designed by Rick Keeler while with another firm, prior to joining Burns & McDonnell. Rick provided architectural services to St. Luke’s Baptist Hospital in San Antonio for over 20 years.
The initial project included a master plan and the design of a major expansion to the original hospital. Included in the project was the addition of a 90-bed patient bed tower, new central plant and expansion of every department of the hospital.
- Architecture design
- Mechanical engineering
- Electrical engineering
- Interior design
Having worked with the hospital as an ongoing client for more than 20 years, Rick Keeler provided full architecture, planning and programming services early on. Originally designed as a satellite facility, St. Luke’s Baptist Hospital grew to become an independent hospital. A complex phasing plan was developed to allow the hospital to stay in complete operation during the completion of construction. This included relocation of the existing central plant.
Subsequent projects were two medical office buildings, two parking structures, an addition to expand the operating department, a new emergency department, several updates to the master plan and numerous renovations from cath labs to entire patient floors.
The Ambulatory Surgery Center was a complete renovation of an existing shell building into a 14,000-square-foot surgery center with four operating rooms.
- 90 patient beds
- New central plant
- Expansion of all departments
