Regions Hospital Expansion 2009

Fun Facts

Total project cost is budgeted at $179 million.
Architect: Ellerbe Becket
Contractor: Kraus-Anderson
30,000-pound hammers will be used to drive down support piles to a depth of 75 feet.
During excavation, brick wall remnants of an abandoned 1950s building were discovered.
At the center of the expansion will be a new 10-story, 385,000-square-foot, T-shaped tower located on the current south parking lot, near I-94.
The top five floors of the new tower will be patient care units. Each floor will have 36 private patient beds. Three of the floors will be finished when the expansion opens in 2009 and the other two will be shelled in and completed at a later date.
Floors 4-5 will house mechanical equipment.
The third floor will be a new surgical services area with 20 new operating rooms.
The second floor will include a new reprocessing area to support the operating rooms, on-call rooms for physicians and shelled space for future development.
The first floor will feature space for a future expansion and renovation of the emergency department, as well as a new main entrance and lobby that connects to the existing atrium.
Two levels of parking (approximately 450 parking spaces) will be located underneath the new tower providing patients and visitors with convenient access to the building.
A new 900-space employee parking ramp with security and landscaping on University Avenue between Jackson and Robert streets will allow employees to park near the hospital campus.
Emergency Center expansion of 55,000 square feet.
Total renovation of approximately 62,000 square feet of space.
250 healthcare jobs created by 2013; 450 construction-related jobs during expansion.

Regions Hospital Timeline

1895	Alleviated overcrowding by moving from the original stone mansion into a larger building.
1913	By its 40th anniversary, the Hospital had grown from 10 beds to 600, and had established itself as a premier healthcare institution.
1963	Established its burn center, a unique program that garners national acclaim.
1965	Moves to a new hospital at the current location at Jackson Street and University Avenue.
1977	North Building is added to the Ramsey campus in 1977.
1986	Becomes a private, nonprofit facility - no longer county-operated.
1987	One year later, the hospital, clinic and foundation are organized under common management.
1988	In response to the needs of the women of the Twin Cities, establishes the Health Center for Women. The clinic is noted as the Twin Cities first women’s health clinic staffed entirely by female physicians. High demand for this one-of-a-kind service led a 1995 expansion and new site for the clinic.
1993	St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center and the Ramsey organizations merge with HealthPartners. Also in that year, the American College of Surgeons recognizes the hospital as a Level I Trauma Center. Regions remains the only such center serving the east metro and western Wisconsin.
1994	Opens a new 18 bed burn center facility and upgrades the Emergency Department, long the busiest in the St. Paul area.
1997	St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center becomes Regions Hospital.
2000	Opens its new Heart Center, Birth Center, Surgical Services, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, and Gastroenterology Services.
2002	Opens a new 5,000 square-foot Breast Health Center and a new 9,000 square foot Cancer Care Center.
2005	To address demand for outpatient specialty services, Regions and HealthPartners open the new HealthPartners Specialty Center in 2005. The center is located in the Phalen Boulevard Corridor, an economic redevelopment initiative on St. Paul’s east side. A second building will open in 2007.
2007	Construction begins on Expansion 2009: Building Best Care Best Experience expansion and renovation of Regions Hospital.
2009	Expected completion of expansion project.