Albany Medical Center decided to move its Nuclear Medicine unit from its isolated location to a more convenient one for its outpatients, adjacent to other radiology-based services.

The new unit, which is 70% larger, includes four gamma camera exam rooms and a stress-test room. After check-in, patients proceed to the dosing room which has a custom-designed, double-sided locked medicine cabinet to allow multiple doses to be added from the corridor and then removed one-by-one for patient use in the room. Patients then go to a four-bay holding area for prep and wait for the medication to take effect.

Hyman Hayes Associates designed a pharmacy within the unit to USP 797 requirements for radiopharmaceuticals with ISO class 7 negative pressure clean rooms, including a separate lab for blood-derived radio labeling. The suite also contains a waiting area, consult station, medication lab, blood lab, uptake room, technician work room, offices, and support space.