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St. Mary's Medical Center
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But our heart is right where it's always been
Timeline
Design and construction master plan
Essentia Health’s commitment to transform our downtown medical campus represents the largest private investment in Duluth’s history. The Vision Northland building project demonstrates Essentia Health’s commitment to the health of its patients, the economic vitality of the community, and the work environment for its staff.
Vision Northland groundbreaking ceremony
On September 25, 2019, we held our Vision Northland groundbreaking ceremony, marking the beginning of construction of a four-year, $900 million investment that includes a replacement hospital bed tower, clinical space and surgical suites.
Foundations complete
Before and after perspective of the Vision Northland building project site at Essentia Health in Duluth, Minnesota.
Structure complete and topping out ceremony
Essentia Health marked the structural completion of construction and raised the final beam of Vision Northland during a topping out ceremony on November 9, 2021.
Interior construction tours
Learn more about the design of specialty care units at St. Mary’s Medical Center. These include birthing suites, midwifery suites, the emergency department, Children’s Hospital, heart and vascular unit, intensive care unit (ICU) and operating rooms.
Substantial completion of facility
98% of all major facility construction was completed.
Community Open House
The community was invited to tour Essentia Health-St. Mary's Medical Center on Friday, July 21. More than 3500 community members came to visit the hospital. They toured the amenities floor including the beautiful winter garden atrium, chapel and cafeteria, the Birthplace on the 8th floor, and an ICU unit on the 9th floor.
Opening of St. Mary’s Medical Center
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Private Rooms
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Healing Environment
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Digital Wayfinding
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Enhanced Surgery Notifications
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Quality Care
Main Features
- Size - 942,000 square feet
- Patient Rooms - 344
- Beds - 346 – There are two double occupancy rooms in the NICU to accommodate twins.
- Construction Hours - 2.8 million union labor worker hours
- Care for Birds- There are 36 different frit patterns used for glass on the building - 32 of those patterns are unique to vision northland; fritted glass helps reduce bird strikes
- Data Cable - More than 500 miles of data cable were installed to accommodate the advanced technology of the building. That's enough cable to stretch from Duluth, MN to Omaha, NE.
- Energy Savings - Water use is 20% more efficient than LEED V4 baseline, thanks to plumbing fixtures such as high-efficiency toilets, sinks, and showers.
- Operating rooms - 16 operating rooms with three hybrid rooms.
- A pneumatic tube system - Similar to what you encounter at a bank drive-through — will greatly improve the transport of smaller items in the hospital. The replacement St. Mary’s Medical Center will incorporate about 12,000 feet of pneumatic tubes, with the capability to connect to existing systems in other buildings on our downtown campus as fast as 15 mph.