Project Team Selected for Enloe Medical Center’s New Comprehensive Cancer Center

HGA has been selected to lead the architectural design, engineering, interior design and medical planning efforts for Enloe Medical Center’s Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chico, California. Swinerton will serve as the general contractor on the project. The 107,000-square-foot facility will consolidate Enloe’s existing ambulatory cancer services under one roof in a new community-based outpatient cancer center that will increase the system’s capacity to be able to care for 2,000 new patients each year.

Set to open by late 2025, the cancer center will be outfitted with new equipment and spaces to provide expanded diagnostics, advanced treatment options, additional supportive therapies and more, including:

• Screening and diagnostic imaging spaces
• Radiation oncology services
• Infusion treatment spaces
• Examination and treatment rooms
• Cancer-centric clinical and administrative offices, including pharmacy
• Physician and family meeting rooms
• Spaces for education and wellness activities, as well as survivorship programming
• Relaxing respite areas

The new center sits on approximately 13 acres with over half of the site reserved for the cancer center building and necessary parking. The open, cleared parcel was gifted to Enloe Medical Center by Dan and Dawn Gonzales, developers of the adjacent Meriam Park mixed-use community. Fundraising efforts are underway for the $120-million project, which marks “Phase I” in a multi-phase expansion.

Additional project collaborators include Buehler Engineering Inc., structural engineering; ECOM Engineering, electrical and low-voltage engineering; Weston & Associates, mechanical and plumbing engineering; Criterion, medical equipment planning; NorthStar, civil engineering and Marquis, security.