This project is a complete 50,000 SF, 2-story interior remodel of the Verde Valley Medical Center Medical Office Building in Cottonwood, Arizona, utilizing the innovative “Virginia Mason Model” to enhance the patient’s quality of service and experience and maximize clinic operations.

A primary objective of this design was to consolidate the services provided by the clinic to support a patient-oriented, holistic approach to healthcare. To facilitate this, the new exam room features two entrances, one for patients and one for staff with a clinic support space to establish separation and enable the staff to work more efficiently. Registration desks are now available to patients on each floor, and the imaging suite includes all specialty services, reinforcing a comprehensive healthcare experience for patients and staff.

Loven Contracting collaborated with the design team, owner, and stakeholders throughout the preconstruction process, including budget development, design phase management, scope development, plan review, bid evaluation, bid preparation, permitting and design approvals, scheduling, subcontractor scope preparation, and value engineering.

The fast-track construction scope of work included:

• Complete interior demolition, including removal of all interior walls, roofing, existing MEP and the port a cochére.
• Installation of a new PVC roof.
• All new floorplan to fit the existing shell.
• Installation of all new MEP, including upgraded electrical design to accommodate increased APS power capacity and temporary electrical to support the mobile MRI trailer for use during relocation of existing unit.
• Construction of a complete imaging suite to include (1) 3 Tesla MRI and shell space for (1) 1.5 Tesla MRI equipment, a new CT suite, and (2) X-ray rooms.
• Construction of offices, exam rooms and support spaces for neurology, gastrology, primary care, urology, behavioral health, orthopedics, internal medicine, and OB/GYN practices.
• Replacement of all glazing and doors.

The end result is a new healthcare facility that combines innovative design principles and state-of-the-art equipment and features to ensure a positive patient and staff quality of experience.

Images © Corgan

Loven Contracting partnered with Navajo Hopi Health Foundation to construct the new Sacred Peaks Health Center in Flagstaff, Arizona. This 24,000SF facility maximizes programming to feature a welcoming lobby area, patient check-in, primary care rooms for pediatric, family, and geriatric services, a radiology department including bone scan and imaging suite equipment, optometry offices, physical therapy room, mental health offices, a full pharmacy, and associated administrative and workspaces, all within budget.

Each of these spaces incorporates cultural considerations with features and finishes that draw from tribal traditions and healing practices. The Sacred Peaks Health Center is the first entirely new building for the Foundation in Northern Arizona and represents a significant step in their ability to offer state-of-the-art healthcare services in a culturally sensitive setting.

Photos: Dekker/Perich/Sabatini photographer, Shane Brandolini, and Loven Contracting project superintendent

Loven Contracting provided preconstruction and construction services as a completion contractor for the New Clinic Building at the Sunset Community Health Center in Yuma, Arizona. This new facility enables Sunset Health to offer an expanded range of services to their clients, including a new pharmacy and dentist office. The 13,242 SF, two-story wood and steel frame building, also consolidates the administration offices and training/conference rooms into one unified space and includes an upgraded parking lot and landscaping for the entire campus.

As a trusted and reliable partner for Sunset Health, Loven Contracting provided a fast and thorough preconstruction evaluation of the project. Our services included a budget review, subcontractor scope review, red-lined and updated drawings, additional design for incomplete drawings, and resurveying the site.

As a part of the value engineering process, Loven Contracting worked with the designer and client during the preconstruction phase to achieve significant savings through reducing the quantity of metal siding on the building, saving the client money both in first costs and in potential long term maintenance issues.

Photos: Amy Wilson

Loven Contracting remodeled Flagstaff Medical Center’s new 39,085SF Women, Infant and Children’s (WIC) Department, spanning both 2nd and 3rd stories of the existing hospital.

This multi-phase project required dynamic and minimally invasive Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA), project management and safety plans. Our team minimized impact on adjacent departments and effectively performed construction within the 100% occupied and active facility. 

This project includes extensive MEP tie-ins to the existing infrastructure and the use of temporary walls and monitored single points of access for all project personnel, material and tool travel. Appropriate security measures were essential in this sensitive environment, and team members performing work on-site were properly badged with photo ID. Regulations are enforced via required sign-in / out system, hourly “headcount” of personnel, and daily inventory of all tools upon hospital entrance. 

In partnership with Northern Arizona Healthcare and Verde Valley Medical Center, Loven Contracting constructed the first free-standing, residence-style Hospice House to serve the local Cottonwood and Sedona communities. Located in Cottonwood, Arizona, this 13,443SF facility features ten private patient rooms with individual patios, two private family rooms, a spacious family kitchen, living area, lobby, dining room, meditation room, staff and nurses stations, and a climatized outdoor patio. The scope of services included value engineering processes and utilities extensions that enables the facility to fulfill programming needs.

The Verde Valley Hospice House incorporates natural tones and materials to provide a peaceful environment for patients and visitors. Other design features include soft natural light and space reserved for meditation.

Loven Contracting completed a successful remodel of the MRI and Ultrasound Suites at Flagstaff Medical Center. This project included removing and replacing the existing MRI imaging machine with new technology and MEP and structural upgrades to the MRI suite and adjacent Ultrasound facility for functionality and finishes.

Removal and replacement of the sensitive MRI equipment required the use of a crane. Working hand-in-hand with Flagstaff Medical Center staff, Loven Contracting developed a dynamic site safety plan to use this equipment on the active and occupied campus.