Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services plans to invest $111.6 million into an upgrade at its flagship facility, Minneapolis-based University of Minnesota Medical Center, according to the Star Tribune.
The upgrade calls for a 7,000-square-foot addition that will make room for an expanded emergency department and two high-tech operating rooms. The renovation will not include adding any licensed beds, and will instead focus on expanding outpatient service offerings.
"The biggest component of the renovation is a renovation of our operating rooms," John Doherty, president of Fairview's central region, told the Star Tribune. "Many of those operating rooms are 20 to 30 years old, and we need to expand the size of those so that we accommodate the needs of the equipment that we use in surgeries nowadays."
Construction on the revamp is expected to start later in May. It is slated for completion in 2020.