Abbott Northwestern Hospital Campus Revitalization Program

WHAT: The Surgical and Critical Care Pavilion will replace the hospital’s existing operating rooms and will create new spaces to treat patients requiring critical care.

WHERE: A new building will be constructed in the middle of the Abbott Northwestern campus. One wing of the building will replace a 4-story parking ramp currently sitting on 10th Avenue.

WHEN: This project is expected to begin in late 2022 or early 2023.

WHY:

• Building the Care Pavilion allows us to move patient care out of some of the oldest buildings on our campus.
• These changes will allow us to improve care environments for our patients, visitors, and staff.
• Abbott Northwestern Hospital currently relies on operating rooms built in the mid-1900s, at a time when very little technology was utilized during surgeries. The size of these operating rooms do not accommodate modern surgical technologies. These limitations impact the types of procedures that can be performed at Abbott Northwestern Hospital.
• New critical care spaces are being built to support increased need and future technologies. They are also being built to support the services required to provide this high level of care.
• These changes also enable the replacement of old, inefficient buildings with a highly energy efficient buildings.

WHAT: The Central Utility Plant will replace the hospital’s old energy and steam producing equipment with more reliable and energy-efficient technology.

WHERE: A new building will go up at Chicago Avenue and East 26^th Street, replacing the Harriet Walker and Education buildings.

WHEN: This project is expected to begin in April 2021.

WHY: There are a number of reasons driving the new Central Utility Plant project...

• Abbott Northwestern Hospital currently relies on equipment from 1956 to generate steam to heat and cool its buildings, sterilize 5 million surgical instruments per year and heat the Children’s Minnesota – Minneapolis campus. It is time for our outdated equipment to be replaced.
• Hospitals need reliable power to provide 24/7 emergency, surgical and other medical services.
• Hospitals are required to be self-sustaining for up to four days in the event of a power outage. This requires reliable and efficient generators.

WHAT: A new Transportation Hub will provide parking for patients and employees. It will support bikes and other non-vehicle transportation users. And it will improve the look, feel and safety of the street level.

• This new facility will enhance the safety and usability of Chicago Avenue and the sidewalk along the Greenway. Improvements include new lighting, street level office space leased to local organizations, plants and trees, and versatility for future uses.
• The Transportation Hub project will also relocate overhead power lines underground for improved safety.
• The roof of the new structure will feature a community solar garden.

WHERE: The Transportation Hub will replace the 2837 Chicago Ave surface parking lot. We will also build two levels of parking atop the existing ramp on 2800 10^th Ave South.

WHEN: This project is expected to begin in early spring of 2021.

WHY: There are a number of reasons driving the new Transportation Hub project...

• We need better parking for the 200,000+ patients who come from all over the Midwest for care at Abbott Northwestern Hospital every year. Also, our employees need better support for multiple modes of commuting, like biking.
  
• The new Transportation Hub will help reduce neighborhood congestion by getting vehicles off the streets.
• The project is part of our strategy to reduce the use of single-occupancy motor vehicles for commuting. Learn more about Allina Health’s innovative program to reduce our single-occupancy vehicle rate.
• A new Transportation Hub will allow us to make future updates and stay within our current footprint. Once the new Transportation Hub is open, we plan to repurpose the location currently occupied by Ramp 1.