The new Panther Lake Clinic serves patients from Kent, Covington, and Maple Valley with 16 dialysis stations that can accommodate roughly 60 patients three times a week for lifesaving treatments. Additionally, the clinic offers home training facilities, free community health classes, and administrative and support spaces.
Based on the success of previous projects for Northwest Kidney Centers, Mahlum was asked to design additional ground-up facilities throughout the Seattle area. Panther Lake was the first of these clinics created to serve a growing base of kidney dialysis patients in areas currently underserved by existing facilities.
As with previous Northwest Kidney Centers projects, the design is guided by biophilic principles, and soft materials such as wood and glass are woven throughout. The materials and finishes are selected to emphasize a warm, domestic aesthetic that strives to humanize what can often be a very institutionalized setting.
The dialysis clinic is oriented so that patients and staff are able to take advantage of natural daylight and views to outdoor landscaping. It also maintains critical sightlines between staff and patients and utilizes cost-effective structural and building envelope systems so as to maximize value for the organization.
The Panther Lake facility is designed with expansion capacity for eight additional dialysis stations.
