St. Luke's announces $100 million in renovations
Jun. 4—McLaren St. Luke's Hospital has announced a five-year, $100 million renovation project that will transform the Maumee campus and enhance patient care services.
The project will include renovations to the SurgiCare outpatient surgery facility, a new open bore MRI, and a complete overhaul of the Maumee campus that will begin later this year.
On Monday, the hospital will unveil the completed $4.2 million SurgiCare renovation, which includes new state-of-the-art surgical equipment and technology as well as renovations to four operating rooms and two procedure rooms.
Jill Trosin, St. Luke's chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services, said the renovations and the upgrades in equipment and technology will benefit the area the hospital serves.
"We really feel strongly that this is going to enhance care for people in our community," she said. "The outpatient surgery facility is the first of our redevelopment here at McLaren St. Luke's."
"One thing the pandemic afforded us was the opportunity to have the facility free, because when the governor limited elective surgeries, we closed it to consolidate surgeries," she added.
The open bore MRI machine will also become operational on Monday at the hospital's Regency Court location in Toledo. The machine can capture images in a less confining space than traditional MRIs and offers a more comfortable experience, according to a news release.
The project will also renovate a number of outpatient facilities on St. Luke's campus in addition to SurgiCare, including the Fallen Timbers Medical Center and McLaren St. Luke's Neurosurgery Clinic.
Renovations to the campus include: upgrades to operating rooms, new surgical equipment, a redesign of all hospital public spaces, renovations to the intensive care center, a new main entrance pavilion, and upgrades to patients rooms. An upgraded lobby, a renovated cafeteria, and other amenities, are also in the works and set to be completed by 2026.
Ms. Trosin said the cost of the renovations comes from renovating the campus and also implementing the latest equipment and technology to the hospital.
"We're really focused on our campus," she said. "And we're not only trying to look at the present, but the future. What are we going to need for the future? For instance, in our outpatient center, things are continuing to change all the time in terms of what is expected to be done outpatient. So we try to look to the future so that knowing that there will be more procedures, more surgeries that are expected to become outpatient surgery, we want to be able to accommodate those."
In a statement, Jennifer Montgomery, chief executive officer and president of St. Luke's, said the project "will transform the face of health care in our community."
"Our plans represent the next step in providing our community with the very latest clinical services and technology while providing greater comfort for our patients and their families," the statement read. "These are changes that will allow the flexibility necessary to accommodate future health care trends well into the future."
First Published June 4, 2021, 10:48am
