M.Hill Role: Project Architect while w/Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects.

The renovation of St. Vincent’s Comprehensive Cancer Center involved the consolidation, expansion and enhancement of all of St. Vincent’s Hospital’s existing outpatient cancer diagnostic and treatment services into approximately 65,000 square feet of renovated space. The Center is located on the ground floor of a 17-story reinforced concrete commercial loft building from the 1930’s in downtown NYC with two levels of parking below grade. The entrance is on Eighth Avenue but the Center takes up almost the entire city block between 15th and 16th streets.

The building includes a breast center, diagnostic radiology, radiation oncology, chemotherapy, medical oncology, and outpatient surgery departments with related clinical and public support spaces. It is designed as a state-of-the-art out patient facility.

The St. Vincent’s Cancer Center is a major renovation and is designed as a stand-alone, autonomous facility that allows 24-hour operation of the chemotherapy department and related support spaces.

Patient access is on West 15th Street under a covered vehicle drop-off. Patients who drive to the Center are provided with valet-type parking services. Ambulet and ambulance access for patients arriving by gurneys is provided at two locations on West 16th Street.