A new building on the campus of OSF HealthCare St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington is poised to offer the best of both worlds for patients, physicians and staff.
Opening in early October, OSF HealthCare Center for Health at 210 St. Joseph Drive, will consolidate OSF PromptCare, OSF Occupational Health, OSF Medical Group-Family Medicine and OSF HealthCare Cardiovascular Institute services under one roof. “The convenience of co-locating these services will be a benefit to our patients as well as the clinicians,” said OSF St. Joseph President Lynn Fulton.
“The reason we’re doing this is for patients and to provide them with a better experience,” said Dr. Bill Novak, a cardiologist with OSF HealthCare Cardiovascular Institute. “There will be convenient parking and a greatly improved workflow which will help our patients get their testing completed more efficiently. The building itself is new and modern, which will provide our patients with a better experience.
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“Our team has been involved in the project’s planning to ensure the building is designed to serve patients and to provide care more efficiently. I am really excited about moving to the new building but recognize that this will be a significant change for our patients,” Novak said. “But we’ve been a part of this from the planning stages so it should be a smooth transition.”
In addition to serving current patients and staff, the new building will allow future expansion of services and space, which will also help the hospital with its recruitment efforts.
“New physicians really want to know ‘Where’s my space going to be … What about cardiac testing,’ ” Fulton said. “All of that really does appeal to new doctors in both primary care and cardiology practices.
“It really will allow clinicians to have the space they need to provide great care to patients in a more comfortable setting,” Fulton said.
Novak said doctors have been “involved in the whole process, to the point of looking at architectural plans, trying to help design the office space so it helps with the workflow of our patients … even how we want our desks set up relative to the exam table. Nowadays, one challenge is that a lot of things are done, even in patient rooms, via computer. We don’t want our heads turned away from the patient … we can still have that face-to-face interaction with patients during their visits.”
The first floor of the $25.3 million, 53,000-square-foot building will have OSF PromptCare and occupational health and wellness, including X-ray services and an infusion clinic. The second floor will be for outpatient cardiovascular care, including offices for cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons, cardiac testing such as echocardiography, stress testing and cardiac rehabilitation. The third floor will be for OSF Medical Group-Family Medicine.
“We’re really looking forward to moving into the new building,” Novak said. “It’s nice because we’ll be together with cardiology and cardiac physicians in the same space but also be with a lot of primary care providers.”
OSF HealthCare Center for Health, 210 St. Joseph Drive, Bloomington; community open house 4 to 7 p.m. Oct. 3.
