Wrangell Medical Center

Dawson built the new Wrangell Medical Center, a 35,000 square foot Critical Access Hospital and Long-Term Care Facility serving the island community of Wrangell in Southeast Alaska. Designed by Wold Architects and Engineers for SEARHC, the facility brings emergency services, acute care, transitional care, primary care, long-term care, and ancillary hospital services to a community of roughly 2,400 people where the nearest alternative hospital is reachable only by air or sea.

The new building connects to the existing two-story clinic through a covered walkway, so patients and staff can move between facilities in any weather. That connection was critical, turning two separate buildings into one functioning campus.

Dawson also renovated the interior of the existing clinic while it stayed fully operational. Every phase of construction was planned around active patient care: noise mitigation, dust control, and utility continuity were the baseline, not optional. All site work and utility infrastructure were part of the scope, making this a ground-up transformation of Wrangell's healthcare campus that delivers emergency, acute, primary, transitional, and long-term care under one roof, a critical lifeline built to serve this community for generations.