Wisconsin Hospital Project Set to Break Ground

LA CROSSE, Wis. — Gundersen Lutheran Hospital will begin construction on its new 400,000-square-foot hospital building on the South Side of La Crosse in early January, officials announced. The new building and renovation of the existing structures is reputed to be one of the largest healthcare construction projects in the region slated to begin next year.

 

The project will be built in phases over eight years but the first phase will be completed in 2014. That phase will include a new hospital entrance and lobby, trauma and emergency center and space for medical imaging, pre-op, surgery and hospitalized patients.

 

When completed, the six-story hospital will include private rooms for every patients, new operating rooms and expanded pre-op and post-op areas, improved medical, surgical and critical care units and centralized services for women and children, including a new neonatal intensive care unit.

 

A new three-level, 600-car parking garage ramp was completed in November.

 

No figure has been released on the project’s costs. The city will initiate a community capital campaign in 2011.

 

The hospital is being constructed to meet LEED standards. Gundersen Lutheran says it hopes to become 100 percent energy independent by 2014.