OPN Architects completed the MercyOne Dubuque Cancer Center as a patient-focused space for care in Dubuque, Iowa.

Consistent with Trinity Health, Mercy Health Network and Mercy Medical Center Dubuque’s strategy to improve care management, a new Cancer Center, operated collaboratively between Mercy Medical Center Dubuque and Medical Associates, is an opportunity to provide the citizens of Dubuque and surrounding communities with complete and coordinated cancer services currently unavailable locally.

In collaboration with design partners Altus Architectural Studios, OPN partnered with Mercy and Medical Associates first to determine the feasibility of regionally prominent, one-stop-shop cancer center that would serve as a destination hub for the region, coalesce historically fragmented program components, and create an exceptional patient-and-family care experience.

This feasibility study was a result of years of discussions and significant recent work to refine a vision for a full-service cancer center for the community of Dubuque.

Led by the precepts that the center would be patient-centered, full-service, accessible, efficient, connected, multidisciplinary, and provide excellent care, the design team worked with Mercy and Medical Associates to define key programmatic components, partnership options, location options, costs, and financial feasibility.

Following the study, OPN and Altus were then commissioned with design of a new full-service cancer center will offer medical oncology, radiation oncology and holistic care, with support from nurse navigators, pharmacists, dietitians, spiritual and social workers.

The building opened in summer 2020.

Design: OPN Architects
Design Team: Roger Worm, Elizabeth Seiberling, Landon Burg
Design Partner: Altus Architectural Studios
Contractor: Conlon Construction
Photography: Kenneth D. Smith | Design Photography