HIGHLAND, IL—The new St. Joseph's Hospital has just opened its doors in Highland, IL, a town in the Metro East area of St. Louis, after a 14-month, $63 million construction effort. The 125,000-square-foot campus is about one mile north of the existing hospital at 12866 Troxler Rd. and includes a single-floor hospital and a new three-story medical office building with about 40,000-square-feet of leased space.
The contractors, Highland-based Korte & Luitjohan Contractors, Inc. and St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., broke ground on the new St. Joseph's, an affiliate of Springfield, IL-based Hospital Sisters Health System in April 2012, and had substantially finished the project at the end of May.
Richmond, VA-based Odell Associates served as architect and Rome, GA-based Adams Management Services represented the owner.
All inpatient rooms are private; each room has a “family zone” which allows guests a comfortable space to visit or even sleep. Large windows offer views of the surrounding countryside, easily viewed from the patient's bed.
“The new hospital has been designed to emphasize healing and wellness with a focus on outpatient treatment and therapy, allowing patients to avoid unwanted overnight stays and assist healing at home,” says Peggy Sebastian, CEO of St. Joseph's.
"We have invested nearly $63 million dollars to create a healing environment that provides a high-quality, Franciscan patient experience," Sebastian adds. "The new state-of-the-art St. Joseph's Hospital combines technology with an efficient floor plan design to maximize patient care and resource utilization."
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Brian J. Rogal
Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.
