Designing a hospital to teach, learn, and grow

UPMC Memorial - Replacement Hospital

Inspired by the planning modules and standards of West Shore Hospital, we set out to make Memorial Hospital a teaching hospital that would serve the needs of the surrounding community and families who depend on it. 

The new UPMC Memorial - Replacement Hospital provides a six-story, 260,000 square foot replacement facility for the existing hospital in downtown York. The 130-bed facility will house all the necessary support functions for a freestanding hospital, including an emergency department, surgical services, radiology, central sterile processing, lab, pharmacy, dietary services, and central utility plant. 

Situated on over 100 acres, the new campus provides access to outdoor gardens and walking trails, as well as room for future facilities to care for York residents. It also includes a 140,000 square foot Ambulatory Care Building adjoined to the hospital that is currently under development. The design of Memorial also needed to conform to a site that was already under development for a different hospital design and was abandoned—UPMC Pinnacle acquired Memorial Hospital in the middle of site construction. 

Starting a new design from scratch, Stantec and Quandel Construction Group, Inc. had the new hospital open only six months later than the previous design.