Emergency Response Center for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes

Design Build | State and Local Government

Emergency Response Center Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes
Emergency Response Center Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes
Emergency Response Center Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes

Overview

Prime Architects designed an 8,500 SF emergency medical services station for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes in Clinton, Oklahoma. It serves an area of tribal land that previously had no EMS coverage. The CARES Act-funded design addresses pandemic decontamination and 24-hour staffing.

Technical Scope

  • Architecture/Interiors: 4-bay ambulance garage. Year-round living quarters for 24-hour crews: sleeping areas, restrooms with showers, commercial kitchen and laundry. Offices and a large training room.
  • Decontamination: Patient decontamination area with laundry and clean-clothing supply, separated to protect staff.
  • Physical Security: EMS equipment storage with controlled access for secured medications.
  • Mechanical/Plumbing: HVAC, plumbing and medical gas systems, with secure medical gas storage.
  • Structural: 25-person tornado shelter sized for all building occupants.
  • Civil/Site: Site civil design by Red Plains.
  • CPS: Construction administration and project oversight.

Challenge and Solution

The station had to run through a pandemic without exposing crews. Decontamination, laundry and clean-clothing spaces let patients be processed before entering staff areas.

Outcome

Construction completed 2021.

Project Data:

  • Client / agency: Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes (funded by the CARES Act of 2020)
  • Location: Clinton, OK
  • Size: 8,500 SF
  • Construction cost: $1.5 million
  • Completed: Design 2020 / construction 2021
  • Project type: New construction
  • Facility condition: 24-hour emergency medical services operation
  • Prime Architects role: Prime architect; architecture, interior design, program requirements assessment, engineering coordination, construction administration
  • Design team: Red Plains (civil); 360 Engineering Group, PLLC (structural); Seam Consulting (interior design); Moxify Engineering (MEP)

Relevant If Your Project Involves:

  • EMS / fire station
  • Apparatus bays
  • Decontamination
  • Medical gas
  • Tornado shelter
  • Tribal facilities

Project Category:

Design Build | State and Local Government
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