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St. Joseph’s Hospital
Master Facility Plan
St. Paul, Minnesota
BCS Contact:
Ken Greve
Project Value:
Concept
Completion Date:
September 2004
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Project Description
BCS was engaged by St. Joseph’s Hospital, a member of the HealthEast Care system, to develop a Master Facility Plan including a Space and Functional Program for the hospital’s expansion project. Planning efforts for the hospital expansion project included site visits, departmental space planning meetings, meetings with city officials, monthly updates to administration, and site visits to systems that recently completed innovative healthcare facilities.
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Create a Patient Tower sized to accommodate single product line units per patient floor with universal rooms and the ability to expand to accommodate all patient units in the future |
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Create an outpatient center, with central registration function and close access to many outpatient testing and procedural areas |
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Maintain and establish connections and relationships between departments to increase efficiency and productivity |
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Enhance the ED entry and ambulance garage and utilize universal and rapid triage rooms |
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Increase parking capacity |
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Site is limited to building the expansion across a street |
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Connections on each floor level from new building across a street to old hospital building |
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Operational challenges include a centralized check-in area with new main entry and decentralized imaging services throughout old hospital and expansion |
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Relocation of the departments housed within an antiquated building on the campus was required due to the demolition of this building |
Solutions
Presented to the HealthEast Care System board of directors, the Master Facility Plan included a comprehensive square footage and cost breakdown of the entire expansion room-by-room. The expansion project consisted of approximately 175,000 gross square feet of new space for a New Patient Tower with 90 private patient rooms, radiology and outpatient services, a 16,000 square foot Material Management Facility with a 290-space parking structure located above the facility, a 15,000 square foot Emergency Department expansion combining new and renovated space, a 38,000 square foot hospital renovation (primarily Surgery and CV Lab), and an upgrade of existing patient units.
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