Saint Luke’s Hospital in Missouri to Break Ground on $26.7M Neuroscience Tower

Saint Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., will soon break ground on a $26.7 million neuroscience tower, according to a hospital news release.

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The hospital will renovate the 30-year-old former Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute building to expand its centers of excellence and accommodate new programs, such as the minimally invasive spine center. The neuroscience program will consolidate diagnostic, surgical, interventional, intensive care and other services in the 88,000-square-foot tower.

The facility will include four neurosurgical operating rooms, three neurointerventional laboratories, an expanded epilepsy monitoring unit, a neurodiagnostics lab and expanded rooms and beds.

Saint Luke’s plans to move its neuroscience services into the building by the spring of 2013.

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