LincolnHealth breaks ground on $13.7M project in Damariscotta
Courtesy / E4H Environments for Health Architecture
This architect's rendering shows the $13.7 million medical office facility designed by E4H Environments for Health Architecture for LincolnHealth's Damariscotta campus.
LincolnHealth, a MaineHealth member organization, broke ground Tuesday on a $13.7 million medical office building at the Damariscotta campus.
Designed by E4H Environments for Health Architecture, an architecture firm focused exclusively on the health care industry, the new facility is slated for completion in June 2018.
The 39,800-square-foot facility will house primary, specialty and behavioral care services, currently spread among four buildings on LincolnHeath’s riverside campus.
Hebert Construction Corp. of Lewiston is the construction manager of this project.
The new three-story building will feature a community room on the ground floor for education and special events that will be for both public and staff use. The first and second floors will house the provider practices along with consultation space for a dietician, pharmacist, social worker, physician and other professionals as the need arises.
The consolidation will provide significant benefits to both patients and staff in a patient-centered medical home environment, offering more efficient and accessible care to the community, according to a news release. By integrating primary, specialty and behavioral practices in one modern facility, LincolnHealth’s patient-centered medical home will increase provider communication in real time and allow staff to move discretely between floors and work side by side with their peers in a collaborative setting.
“The incidence of chronic disease is growing more prevalent, putting greater strain on providers to keep a patient out of the hospital,” said Charlie Rizza, associate partner at E4H Environments for Health Architecture, which has offices in Portland, Boston, New York, Dallas and Burlington, Vt. “Outpatient facilities that provide a broad level of patient care services in a setting that focuses on the whole person are way ahead today. For patients with multiple health-related issues, there is a huge benefit to visiting one location for multiple services.”
New building based on patient-centered care
In developing the facilities plan over the course of two years with LincolnHealth, E4H modeled the building after its recent design of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center’s Nashua Clinic in Lebanon, N.H.
By taking the model one step further, E4H created contiguous provider spaces between dedicated off-stage and on-stage areas.
The incorporation of a perimeter corridor was central to this design, allowing for improved patient wayfinding and more natural light throughout the facility. Exam rooms on both floors are universal, allowing blurred practice lines between provider groups. The consult rooms on the perimeter face the outside wall along the periphery of the corridor bringing in natural light with the advantage of being converted in the future to exam rooms if needed for additional flexibility.
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