Pictures from the new hospital site. Find more photos on our Facebook page.
Good Samaritan Regional Health Center is a symbol of how health care design will shape positive patient outcome in the future. Key features will include:
- Large, all-private rooms with family accommodations that encourage loved ones to stay overnight with patients in comfort
- Decentralized nursing stations that literally bring staff within footsteps and view of patients for optimal safety, service and response
- Easily accessible outpatient services designed for maximum convenience with close parking and multiple building entrances
- This highest standards of health care technology designed to improve patient outcomes in safety and healing
- Physicians offices on campus, located just footsteps away from the hospital’s imaging, lab and procedure areas
- A healing environment that offers comforting views, water features, artwork and pleasing interiors that benefits patients, families and staff
Good Samaritan Regional Health Center New Medical Campus Facts
- 359,000 square foot replacement hospital
- Designed by BSA Lifestructures
- Construction by McCarthy Construction of St. Louis, Lipps Construction of Mt. Vernon, and Shores Builders of Centralia
- Consists of five floors and a Garden Level, plus numerous patient entrances surrounded by convenient parking
- 134 beds plus 8 observation beds; all private rooms
- Medical office building, including a Surgery Center and outpatient diagnostic services, will be connected to the hospital
- $9 million Surgery Center is a partnership with our physicians; offering made in August of 2010 quickly sold out
- Located on Veteran’s Memorial Drive, adjacent to the new interchange for I-57 and I-64
- Project will provide an average of 275 full-time construction jobs during the building process
- Total investment for the replacement hospital, Medical Office Building, and Surgery Center is an estimated $237 million.
- $1.5 million of the project is dedicated to tearing down the existing facility and converting the land into neighborhood lots, raising the property values of the surrounding neighborhoods
- Uses color, graphics, landmarks and views of the exterior to make wayfinding easier
- Lighting, HVAC, plumbing and hot water systems that are designed to be “green” - energy efficient
Good Samaritan Regional Health Center announced in 2009 intentions to replace the current hospital with a new medical campus on Veterans Memorial Drive in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. Ground breaking on the future Good Samaritan Regional Health Center took place in April 2010.
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