Meeting Community Needs with Strategic Expansion

Good Samaritan Hospital’s 300,000-square-foot Patient Care Pavilion (PCP) expands and modernizes the campus to meet growing demand for services on Long Island’s south shore. The six-story addition consolidates critical services, including emergency, surgical, and inpatient care, into a cohesive, resilient facility. Designed to improve operational flow and patient experience, the pavilion also redefines the hospital’s public entry, creating a welcoming arrival and enhancing wayfinding across the campus in a simplified, elegant expression of the hospital’s mission.

Designing for Healing, Efficiency and Growth

Rather than replicate the hospital’s midcentury brick architecture, the pavilion introduces a complementary identity rooted in Long Island’s civic character. A grounded stone base conveys permanence and neighborhood scale, while a lighter glass volume signals openness, innovation and a new era of care. Our architecture, engineering and planning teams collaborated to meet significant surgical, emergency and mechanical demands while preserving a calm, residential presence from the street.

The building includes a 75-room emergency department, a 16-room surgical suite with perioperative support, central sterile processing, a 36-bed all-private inpatient floor and shell space for two future inpatient floors. The work also includes phased renovation of existing hospital areas along with major parking, utility and infrastructure upgrades to support long-term campus growth.

Key design features include:

• A high-performance façade using fritted glass brings daylight into patient areas while controlling glare and heat gain
• Fully integrated mechanical systems recessed within the architecture eliminate a visible penthouse
• On-stage and off-stage circulation separates public movement from operational flow
• A park and staff respite spaces support caregiver well-being and recovery

Impacting Care Delivery for Generations

The pavilion enhances experience and operations through clarity, privacy and adaptability. Progressive care planning, universal private prep and recovery rooms, decentralized staff zones and specialized infection control features support efficient workflows and future readiness. From the street, the building reads as civic and museum-like rather than institutional, reinforcing its role as a welcoming front door for advanced care within a dense residential neighborhood.