WellSpan Sechler Family Cancer Center

Erdman Anthony provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection engineering services for a new 21,000-square-foot oncology center for the Good Samaritan Health System in Lebanon. Among the goals for the facility design was to provide a more comfortable atmosphere where the needs of cancer patients and their families could be addressed.

The single-story family cancer center now has five functions: medical practice, research, business, infusion/chemotherapy, and LINAC /radiation. The building features 10 infusion bays, a CT scan area, and a LINAC procedure room. It also has exam and procedure rooms, physician offices, laboratory services, a pharmacy, and ancillary spaces.

The mechanical design included a variable refrigerant volume heating and cooling system for the majority of the spaces, along with dedicated rooftop equipment to serve the LINAC, CT, and pharmacy areas. An independent DOAS system ventilates the building to health department requirements. The pharmacy was designed for USP Chapter 797 compliance for pharmaceutical compounding of sterile preparations. The building is fully sprinkled and has a limited medical gas system that interfaces with the campus oxygen farm.

The vaults that house the LINAC and CT scan equipment were designed so that either type of machinery could operate there in the future.

The project’s electrical design incorporated use of LED lighting fixtures to the greatest extent possible, which required intricate coordination between the architect and the interior designer to create a warm and hospitable environment in the infusion bays.