A RURAL HOSPITAL JUST RIGHT FOR ITS COMMUNITY
Samaritan Healthcare, Moses Lake Replacement Hospital
The Moses Lake Replacement Hospital introduces a welcoming community hospital and establishes the first phase of a growing community resource and regional healthcare hub. Easily accessible to residents from two main highways, the hospital brings Samaritan Healthcare closer to its patients traveling from across Grant County in Washington state. The 50-bed facility keeps care local by offering comprehensive medical, surgical, critical, and labor and delivery care, as well as 24-hour emergency care. Specialty clinics include family medicine, internal medicine, orthopedics, women’s health, general surgery, physical therapy, rehab, infusion services, and urgent care.
Location
Moses Lake, WA
Square Feet
173,000 SF
Completion date
2026
Project Component
Architecture
Interior Design and Space Planning
Medical Planning
The new hospital is all-electric, excluding the kitchen, powered by a high-performance central utility plant wing designed by ZGF.
Welcoming With Open Arms
The three-story building features two dedicated entries, one for outpatient and inpatient services, and one for the Emergency Department, both sheltered by a welcoming wood-paneled canopy. The hospital’s form bends gently at its midpoint—like open arms—following the site’s topography. The exterior expression is rooted in the local landscape, and generous native plantings wrap around the hospital, offering garden views from patient and staff areas. Throughout the hospital, the design prioritizes staff visibility to patients and wayfinding clarity to visitors.
The hospital avoids vinyl and other chemicals of concern throughout to support patient and staff health.
The Labor, Delivery, Recovery, and Postpartum program is placed adjacent to Surgery, giving staff to access both units. This layout allows staff to move patients quickly into the c-section suite, with the surgical team nearby and ready.
Planning Efficiency, Today and Tomorrow
To achieve an efficient, patient-focused solution, ZGF brought together an integrated team of the client's clinicians, leadership, and administrators to work collaboratively with the design team to realize a facility grounded in Samaritan’s mission. This group outlined the importance of meeting the future needs of a regional community, building in flexibility to develop as a regional hub, maintaining adaptability for new technologies and care models, providing an integrated care experience while protecting patients’ dignity and privacy, and fostering the highest quality of medical care in a warm and welcoming environment.
ZGF’s medical planners identified cost savings by vertically stacking programs in either wing of the building, creating efficiencies in building systems and simplifying workflows for care staff. Imaging and lab services are located in the middle to serve both inpatient and outpatient programs.
Maximizing daylight drove the building’s long, lean massing.
Feel at Home
“Living rooms” provide hospitality-infused waiting areas and community focal points throughout the hospital, connected by a glass circulation corridor that wraps the building and brings light into clinical spaces. Other amenities include a first-floor chapel that is open to the public, café and dining space, a gift shop with grab-and-go food and beverages, and a healing garden with outdoor seating.
ZGF and Samaritan first established a 15-year master plan for the 55-acre site that anticipates future growth, such as a new medical office building and flexible gathering space for community use, ultimately developing 28 of the 55 acres with the hospital as its anchor.
With its patient-centered planning and daylit spaces, the Moses Lake Replacement Hospital demonstrates how rural healthcare can keep community at its core.
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