Plan Highlights
• Convienient day-surgery access and private exit.
• Emergency helipad and covered ambulance entrance
• Expanded family birth center
• New chapel with rooftop meditation garden
• Welcoming lobby with gift shop cafe
• Top-story cafeteria with outside seating areas
• All-private rooms
Source: Monroe Clinic
MONROE - Preliminary construction at Monroe Clinic begins Sept. 21 and it will mean some slight changes for people who come to the Clinic's north entrance.
The Clinic's expansion project, unveiled in June, hasn't created any parking changes so far, but visitors will begin to see some work on the building's north side at the lower level entrance, Liz Carroll, marketing and community relations director, said Friday.
Patients enter the north side of the Clinic for pediatrics and family practice departments. They will have to use the Clinic's main entrance.
Special signs have been created to direct patients, Carroll said.
"These signs are important for the convenience of our patients and visitors because as the project moves through various phases, parking and entrance access will also change," Carroll said. A visitor coming to the Clinic one month may need to park and enter in a different location the next, she added.
The Clinic will offer valet service at the main hospital and Clinic entrances, as well as shuttle service throughout the parking lots from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The Monroe Clinic's building plans and landscape designs call for an $85 million northwest expansion project. The expansion is being financed with $65 million in tax-exempt bonds and $20 million in long-term cash reserves.
With the new addition, most hospital patient services will be moved to the northwest addition, and will be connected to the Monroe Clinic's west side.
The expansion will house fewer ICU beds, but more medical-surgical beds than the current hospital.
A ground breaking ceremony is planned for later this year. The new campus facility is not expected to open until the fall of 2011.
More information about the project is available at monroeclinic.org.
The Clinic's expansion project, unveiled in June, hasn't created any parking changes so far, but visitors will begin to see some work on the building's north side at the lower level entrance, Liz Carroll, marketing and community relations director, said Friday.
Patients enter the north side of the Clinic for pediatrics and family practice departments. They will have to use the Clinic's main entrance.
Special signs have been created to direct patients, Carroll said.
"These signs are important for the convenience of our patients and visitors because as the project moves through various phases, parking and entrance access will also change," Carroll said. A visitor coming to the Clinic one month may need to park and enter in a different location the next, she added.
The Clinic will offer valet service at the main hospital and Clinic entrances, as well as shuttle service throughout the parking lots from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The Monroe Clinic's building plans and landscape designs call for an $85 million northwest expansion project. The expansion is being financed with $65 million in tax-exempt bonds and $20 million in long-term cash reserves.
With the new addition, most hospital patient services will be moved to the northwest addition, and will be connected to the Monroe Clinic's west side.
The expansion will house fewer ICU beds, but more medical-surgical beds than the current hospital.
A ground breaking ceremony is planned for later this year. The new campus facility is not expected to open until the fall of 2011.
More information about the project is available at monroeclinic.org.