As the final touches are added to the newest Mayo Clinic Health System facility, the La Crosse hospital is poised to officially begin operations in September. The new $215 million hospital has six levels and 96 beds. Featuring spacious inpatient rooms and advanced medical equipment, the new hospital is set to provide patients with quality care and offer staff the necessary tools to treat patients.
“We’ve offered exceptional care. There’s nothing wrong with our old building. This building just offers us the latest technologies and greater space,” said Christine Feller, operations administrator at Mayo Clinic Health Systems in La Crosse.
“We provide exceptional care. We have the top quality and top patient experience right here in La Crosse, and now this building really brings some different amenities.” A labor and delivery room at the new Mayo Clinic hospital in La Crosse Wednesday, Aug.
21. The new rooms are larger than the previous facilities' rooms and have on suite bathrooms. Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group “To be able to provide top quality, top experience in an older building really speaks to the high-quality staff that we have here,” she added.
“Now, we have the beauty and the space here that will just continue to improve our patient experience in this new facility.” The new building will house a radiology unit on the first floor; procedural services and pre- and post-operative care on the third floor; medical and surgical care, intensive and progressive care units and dialysis on the fourth floor; medical and surgical care units continue on the fifth floor; family birth center and special care nursery on the sixth floor, and the seventh floor houses the new helicopter landing pad. “The environment of care here is significantly improved versus our old facility, and you can feel it,” said Holst.
“Care is still the focus of what we do here. The excellent care we provided in that old facility will definitely be enhanced in this new facility.” Beth Komay, R.
N. at the Mayo Clinic, demonstrates the boom system in the Intensive Care Unit of the new La Crosse Hospital on Wednesday, Aug. 21.
Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group To improve care, the new facility largely emphasizes the importance of comfort. For patients in the labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum suites, a concept unique to Mayo's La Crosse facility, they can rest easy knowing that the rooms emphasize comfort, space, convenience and healing. "We intentionally designed these rooms with equipment and storage space to have all the safety needs for mom and baby during that time of delivery and recovery," said Lauren Mandujano, a nursing manager.
"Then, instead of having to gather your things and get moved to a new unit with new staff, we can really promote that continuity of care for our patients right here. We will store things away, converting the room into a much larger, comfortable, healing environment." A room in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the new Mayo Clinic hospital building on Wednesday, Aug.
21. Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group The new facility will largely focus on Mayo’s hospital and high acuity services, while the current St. Francis building will continue to house a mix of clinic and outpatient services.
“The real difference is that it will include all hospital services, whereas that building had a mix of different services,” said Feller. “We will continue to offer services in our old building, and we’ll continue to work on relocating them to our other campuses over time, but that building will stay open for a period of time.” Services will begin moving into the new facility starting in September, with the radiology department the first to open Sept.
9, and the cardiac catheterization lab opening a week later on Sept. 16. Beth Komay, R.
N. at the Mayo Clinic, wears her Bio Vigil device on Wednesday, Aug. 21.
The device tracks hand-washing among hospital staff and is one of several state-of-the-art technologies that the new building is equipped with. Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group Many of the facility’s departments will offer state-of-the-art technology that can assist staff in delivering the best, most accurate and efficient results for patients. “It could save years of somebody’s life, potentially,” said Dr.
Ted Hanson, a radiologist at Mayo Clinic Health System. “For some patients, it might not make a difference, but for others, it could be the difference in earlier treatment, earlier diagnosis and completely change their management – so we’re excited. We’re lucky.
” Many other improvements have been made possible with the development of the new facility, such as helicopter transportation. A helicopter sits atop the Mayo Clinic's new hospital building on Wednesday, Aug. 21.
Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group Previously, the helicopter pad was on the ground outside the hospital, near several other buildings, electric lines, roads and sidewalks. Now, the landing pad sits atop the new building, providing direct, quick access. “They’ve had air transport all along,” said Todd Lepper, director of air operations at Mayo Clinic Health System.
“This is just a significant safety improvement for separating the aircraft from the surrounding traffic.” Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group While the new facility is not fully operational yet, an open house will take place from 1-4 p.m.
Saturday when patients and neighbors can see the many improvements the new space will help deliver. “This is a Mayo facility, but this is very much a community facility as well. .
.. This is part of our community and something that we really work collaboratively with community members to make sure we’re doing the right thing for care in this area,” said Holst.
A room in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the new Mayo Clinic hospital building on Wednesday, Aug. 21. NICU rooms at the new building have on-suite bathrooms and couches that can convert into beds for visitors and parents.
Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group A labor and delivery room at the new Mayo Clinic hospital in La Crosse Wednesday, Aug. 21. The new rooms are larger than the previous facilities' rooms and have on suite bathrooms.
Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group The newly completed Mayo Clinic Hospital building on Thursday, Aug. 8. Mayo representatives estimate that the new 94-bed hospital will host its first patients by September 2024.
Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group Beth Komay, R.N. at the Mayo Clinic, demonstrates the boom system in the Intensive Care Unit of the new La Crosse Hospital on Wednesday, Aug.
21. Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group A digital six-ring PET/CT scanner at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in La Crosse, Wis. The machine is the only of its kind in the region, according to Mayo, and offers faster results with less radiation exposure.
Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group A helicopter sits atop the Mayo Clinic's new hospital building on Wednesday, Aug. 21. Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group Beth Komay, R.
N. at the Mayo Clinic, wears her Bio Vigil device on Wednesday, Aug. 21.
The device tracks hand-washing among hospital staff and is one of several state-of-the-art technologies that the new building is equipped with. Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group A room in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the new Mayo Clinic hospital building on Wednesday, Aug. 21.
NICU rooms at the new building have on-suite bathrooms and couches that can convert into beds for visitors and parents. Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group A room in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the new Mayo Clinic hospital building on Wednesday, Aug. 21.
Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group A labor and delivery room at the new Mayo Clinic hospital in La Crosse Wednesday, Aug. 21. Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group Nursing Education Manager Barbara Reardon tours the new Mayo Clinic Hospital in La Crosse, Wis.
on Friday, Aug. 16. Mayo Clinic is expecting to host its first patients in the facility in September.
Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group Mayo Clinic nursing staff tour the new Mayo Clinic facilities in La Crosse, Wis. on Friday, Aug. 16.
Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group Nursing Education Manager Barbara Reardon tours the new Mayo Clinic hospital with nursing staff in La Crosse, Wis. on Friday, Aug. 16.
Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group Barbara Reardon, nursing education manager at Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse, demonstrates a new system for tracking patient condition at the new Mayo Clinic Hospital on Friday, Aug. 16. Saskia Hatvany, River Valley Media Group.
