Samaritan Hospital opens Heinrich Medicus Pavilion
TROY, N.Y. » St. Peter’s Health Partners recently celebrated the completion of its $105 million Troy Master Facilities Plan, and held a grand opening for the new Heinrich Medicus Pavilion at Samaritan Hospital.
With its new, state- of-the-art emergency department, intensive care unit, progressive care unit, medical/surgical units, and endoscopy suite, the five-story patient pavilion is the centerpiece of the Troy MFP.
By consolidating inpatient care in Troy at a revitalized and modernized Samaritan Hospital, transitioning St. Mary’s into an outpatient campus, and launching other strategic initiatives to increase access and better coordinate care for patients, SPHP officials said they fulfilled MFP’s promise to transform health care in Troy and surrounding communities.
“We embarked upon the Troy Master Facilities Plan with the goal of re-shaping our presence in Troy, so we could provide this community with the right care, at the right place, and at the right time,” said James K. Reed in a news release, M.D., president and chief executive officer of SPHP. “With the MFP completed, we are now in a better position than ever before to fulfill our promise of providing the highest quality, most compassionate, and most accessible care, to all who need it.”
Officials said the MFP represented one of the largest privatesector investments in the history of Troy and Rensselaer County.
“Today would not have been possible without the support, talent, and dedication of so many people – our colleagues and physicians, our friends and partners, our generous donors, and our patients and their families,” said Mike Finegan in the release, president of acute care at SPHP. “We thank everyone who shared our vision of a healthier Troy, and helped make that dream a reality.
$25 million capital campaign for the Troy MFP, “Transforming Health Care in Troy, The Campaign for Samaritan and St. Mary’s Hospitals,” was an integral part of bringing the MFP to its conclusion.
Transforming Health Care in Troy
SPHP broke ground on the MFP in September 2014, and began construction on the Heinrich Medicus Patient Pavilion in November 2015.
Major milestones of the MFP include:
• Opening a new 570-car, fourstory parking garage on the Samaritan Hospital campus, providing convenient parking for patients, visitors, and staff. (Au- gust 2015)
• Relocating the Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing to a larger location with expanded technology and labs on the St. Mary’s campus. (August 2015)
• Opening the newly renovated, state- of- the- art Hildegard Medicus Cancer Center at St. Mary’s. (November 2016)
• Partnering on the new Sr. Mavis Jewell Medical Respite Program at St. Mary’s, which serves homeless individuals who are discharged from the hospital and require recuperative care beyond what can be provided in a traditional shelter. (March 2017)
• Opening the new Women’s Imaging Center at St. Mary’s, which offers a comprehensive suite of advanced breast imaging and bone density testing. (October 2017)
• Opening the new Samaritan Hospital Emergency Department (ED), which features stateof-the-art technology and design, as well as innovative facilities to enhance high- quality care and patient comfort. (December 2017)
• Transitioning the former St. Mary’s emergency room into a new St. Peter’s Urgent Care location. (December 2017)
• Opening the new Samaritan Hospital Intensive Care Unit (ICU), which features spacious rooms and advanced bedside monitoring equipment. (April 2018)
• Opening the new Samaritan Hospital Progressive Care Unit ( PCU), which features larger, fully private rooms with private bathrooms. (May 2018)
• Opening the new Samaritan Hospital fourth floor medical/surgical unit (June 2018), new fifth floor medical/surgical unit (August 2018), and new endoscopy suite (September 2018).
Officials said all of the new units at Samaritan Hospital, including the EDU, ICU, PCU, medical/surgical units, and endoscopy suite, were developed with input and feedback from providers and ”nurses who work in the unit. Each space was designed to provide a comfortable and healing experience for patients, and optimized to provide an ideal setting for physician, nurses, and other clinicians to provide the highest quality and most compassionate patient-centered care.
The Heinrich Medicus Pavilion added a total of 188,463 square feet to Samaritan Hospital. The total number of inpatient beds at Samaritan Hospital is now192, most of which are in private rooms.
The pavilion was designed by architects Freeman White, and built by BBL Construction Services. The structure of the new pavilion took an estimated 320,000 person-hours to complete, and features a total of 1,221 tons of steel and approximately 5,600 cubic yards of concrete.