CONTACT: Lisa Brunette, lbrunette@uwhealth.org, (608) 263-5830
MADISON — Officials broke ground this morning for the long-anticipated UW Health campus on Madison’s east side.
UW Health at The American Center, designed on the principles of patient- and family-centered care, will introduce a unique health-care campus to the area. Patients, families, hospital staff and physicians have spent months developing plans for the new campus, expected to open in the summer of 2015. Total full-time employment at the new site is expected to be in the range of 760-790 staff, with 325-400 of them new positions.
The east-side site will include:
- A “Universal Care Center,” an innovative concept that allows flexibility in the use of space. The universal care center will provide urgent and emergency services along with outpatient diagnostic and treatment procedures.
- A 56-bed inpatient unit serving orthopedic and general medical-surgical patients. The current hospital site at 600 Highland Ave. has 566 beds and is expected to reach capacity next year.
- Two floors of clinic exam rooms
- 14 operating rooms
- A wellness, fitness and sports-performance area
- Physical and occupational-therapy space.
UW Hospital and Clinics bought the parcel in the northwest part of The American Center in 2005. The creation of the new campus will allow rooms at 600 Highland to be enlarged for patient and family comfort and will also bring inpatient care to the east side of Madison.
“This facility will give us the opportunity to deliver care in a lower-cost setting than our current building, which was designed to be comprehensive,” said Donna Katen-Bahensky, president and CEO of the hospital. “I’m very proud that we received such excellent guidance on the building design from the people who will use it – patients, families and staff.”
The UW Health East Clinic on Terrace Drive in the business park will continue to operate.
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