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Lakeview Hospital expansion plans

The new Lakeview Hospital campus will expand health care offerings for our growing community

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Plans for the new Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater, MN are moving forward, and we couldn’t be more thrilled! Tentatively, we’re planning to break ground in spring 2025 and open in late 2027. With this hospital expansion, those living in the St. Croix Valley, east metro and western Wisconsin will have access to a wider range of specialists and be able to receive essential care, closer to home.

The new campus will provide the space we need to grow with our community. From the new family birth center and specialty centers for heart, cancer and orthopedics, to expanded critical care and emergency capabilities, we’ll support you through every stage of life.

Location of the new Lakeview Hospital campus.

The new Lakeview Hospital campus location in Stillwater

Located at Highway 36 and Manning Avenue in Stillwater, the new campus will remain part of the community we’ve served for more than 140 years while greatly expanding access to fast, convenient specialty care.

With more than five acres of wetland, natural vegetation and buffer areas, the new campus will incorporate green space, trails, pedestrian ways and common areas. These connect the campus with the surrounding neighborhoods in a way that’s designed to complement the community while protecting privacy for patients and neighbors.

Like most hospitals supporting a community this size, the campus will follow a tower design that reduces the overall building footprint and preserves the natural features of the site.

The design will improve efficiency for our caregivers and enhance room design and wayfinding for our patients and visitors. It will increase the number of patient rooms facing the wetlands that form a buffer between the hospital and the neighborhood.

The design also means that the loading dock will not be visible to our neighbors. The loading dock location will also have a natural buffer for both visibility and sound dampening, which is created by an existing berm and trees.

Planned improvements include specialty centers and expanded emergency care

While the plans for the hospital expansion are still in development, you can expect the new campus to include space for 20 observation beds and to maximize the additional 97-bed license for inpatient beds.

You’ll find specialty care such as:

  • Birth center
  • Cancer center
  • Emergency room
  • Heart center
  • Outpatient surgery
  • Same-day imaging
  • TRIA orthopedics clinic and urgent care

With your help, we can make the new Lakeview Hospital the best it can be

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We’re excited to create the new Lakeview Hospital campus with and for our community. We look forward to your involvement every step of the way, from the design phase to the grand opening. Your feedback and donations will allow us to expand the types of care and services we provide to Stillwater, neighboring Minnesota cities and western Wisconsin.

Feedback from the community

In the spring of 2024, more than 1,200 community members completed a survey about the new HealthPartners Lakeview campus project. We’re grateful to everyone who shared feedback, which is helping to inform the design of our new campus. Feedback from the survey includes the community’s interest in:

  • Enhancing patient experience and care by keeping quality care closer to home and adding more specialized care options. Respondents also placed importance on having an overall positive experience, including comfortable waiting spaces for patients and healthy food options.
  • Improving the economy and community by creating jobs and strengthening partnerships with local businesses and organizations. We estimate there will be 250-300 new jobs created for our community in the first 5 years of operating the new hospital.
  • Protecting the environment with sustainable energy sources and preserving open spaces, area landscape and wildlife.
  • Minimizing disruptions by managing traffic patterns near the new campus and surrounding neighborhoods. In partnership with the city of Stillwater, we’re developing plans to extend Curve Crest Boulevard to the west, creating an additional campus entrance designed to reduce traffic in the surrounding neighborhoods. Our latest design plan calls for Lakeview EMS to remain at its current off-campus location near Highway 36 and Greeley Street. EMS teams are trained to stabilize patients at the scene, which means lights and sirens are not always required to transport patients to the hospital.

For more details, read the summary of the survey .

Show your support: The Lakeview Health Foundation

The Lakeview Health Foundation focuses on improving health care throughout the St. Croix Valley. The creation of a new campus affirms the foundation’s commitment to providing trusted, convenient and high-value care for decades to come. With your help, we can make this expansion come to life.

For more information on how to support this project, contact Michelle Boe, the executive director of the Lakeview Hospital Foundation.

Thanks for your partnership and support of the Lakeview Hospital expansion

We’re proud to be part of this community and thankful for your partnership in improving the well-being of those living and working in our community. We’re still working on the details about the hospital expansion, but we will update this page as information becomes available. In the meantime, please send us an email if you have questions you’d like answered right away.

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