Pickering Associates and West Virginia Medicine are pairing up for the expansion of the Camden Clark Medical Center Emergency Department.  The over 60,000 square foot expansion will include 41 Emergency Depart­ment bays, 3 trauma rooms, 3 psychiatric holding rooms, a stat lab, CT scanner, a plain film x-ray unit, support services offices, waiting rooms, lounges, and emergency transport team offices. In addition to the emergency department services, a new nursing unit will also be added that will accommodate 30 private, state-of-the-art patient rooms.

“We’re incredibly excited to be a part of this project,” explains Traci Stotts, Senior Architect at Pickering Associates and Lead Architect on the expansion project.  “The Mid-Ohio Valley is home for the professionals at Pickering Associates.  Being able to offer the hospital our services is rewarding in and of itself, but knowing that we’re directly and positively impacting the lives and healthcare of our fellow community members is humbling, inspiring, and a responsibility we take very seriously.”

David McClure, Chief Executive Officer at Camden Clark Medical Center, says using local businesses is an important piece of making the Parkersburg area a healthcare destination.  “I’m proud to say that we are using all local trades for our building.  We’ve not brought anybody in from the outside. We’ve made sure, from day one, that we were using local trades, even with all the renovations we’ve done and now the expansion because they are our patient population, and we want to make sure that we support them, too.”

The Camden Clark Medical Center expansion is scheduled to be complete in fall of 2016.

Pickering Associates is a well-aligned team of professional architects, engineers and surveyors with a diverse depth and breadth of knowledge.  Established in 1988, Pickering Associates was founded as an engineering company that has developed into an integrated architecture, engineering and surveying firm providing services to education, government, healthcare, industrial, oil & gas and private sector clients.