While the main hospital building has many positive attributes and has served well over the last 30 years, it was clearly built for another era of healthcare. St. Vincent's understands this and the result of what is being planned will make enormous contributions to healthcare in this region. The new standard will save human life and will help patients who currently face less favorable outcomes. This is much more than mere bricks and mortar. It is about helping people.

The contemporary healthcare facility is a more spacious, user-friendly, technology-compatible, holistic healing environment than in the past. Similar to so many healthcare institutions throughout the country, St. Vincent's has adjusted in stages to address areas of need, and to accommodate new clinical innovations and centers of excellence. As such, segments of widely used critical services are not centrally located, and indeed might be found in several different areas of the building. The Imaging Department and Oncology, for example, are difficult to find, and are currently positioned far from the hospital’s entrance. The Emergency Department suffers from an acute lack of space.

When completed, the new four-story wing will enlarge the size of the facility by 125,000 square feet. It will not add beds; rather it will give us precious space for enhancing patient services and provide for future growth. One result will be a fully-contiguous medical environment. The additional space will allow us to reorganize the design and location of clinical services and the technology that is vital to their operation. It will house Radiation Therapy on the Ground Floor, the Emergency Department, Imaging, Ambulatory Services and Cardiology Services on the Main Level, the Cancer Center’s Infusion Center and Integrative Oncology Center on the third level, and Women’s Imaging and the Conference and Education centers on the fourth level.