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 to develop a Master Facility Plan that will enhance St. Joseph’s image and redevelop the campus  into a 21st century facility. Objectives of the plan included creating a significant Heart Program, expanding the ER and Imaging departments, improving the overall image with healing environments, converting semi-private rooms to private patient rooms, improving parking, and developing additional on-campus physician office space.  The master Facility Plan includes a new patient tower with a cardiac care unit with cath labs and operating rooms as well as new emergency and radiology departments (adjacent to each other).  A new three-story atrium/main lobby is also incorporated into the plan within close proximity to a new parking ramp via a skywalk connector.  A comprehensive budget and schedule for each of these areas was included as part of the plan.

Program Objectives
	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
	Create an outpatient center, with central registration function and close access to many outpatient testing and procedural areas
	Maintain and establish connections and relationships between departments to increase efficiency and productivity
	Enhance the ED entry and ambulance garage and utilize universal and rapid triage rooms
	Increase parking capacity

Unique Challenges
	Site is limited to building the expansion across a street
	Connections on each floor level from new building across a street to old hospital building
	Operational challenges include a centralized check-in area with new main entry and decentralized imaging services throughout old hospital and expansion
	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.