Owatonna Hospital announces major gift for Expanding the Dream capital campaign
Area physicians support Reflection Center feature
OWATONNA, Minn. 04/24/2008--Owatonna Clinic-Mayo Health System physicians, along with retired physicians who live or once practiced in the area, have pledged more than $170,000 to Owatonna Hospital’s Expanding the Dream capital campaign. The hospital’s capital campaign is currently at 82 percent of its goal to raise $3 million to fund special features of the new Owatonna Hospital.
The Expanding the Dream campaign is a community venture launched earlier this year to fund special features of the new hospital, which were identified as important during community forums and an online survey. These special features include the Owatonna Commons, an Indoor Walking Path, a Community Resource Center, a Professional Education Center, a Center for Health and Wellness and a Reflection Center. These Special Project Features are being funded exclusively through philanthropic donations.
“As not-for-profit hospital, we rely on the community as a vital partner to continue delivering an exceptional health care experience for our patients,” said Dorothy Erdmann, Owatonna Hospital president. Support from businesses and community members has been a key component to the success of the fundraiser. “Practicing and retired physicians saw the need of having a hospital that offers an improved patient care experience for years to come and leads the way for other donors to follow to make these enhancements a reality,” added Erdmann.
“For the Owatonna Clinic physicians this was a very easy project to get behind,” said Brian Bunkers, MD and CEO of Owatonna Clinic. The physician gift will fully fund the Reflection Center, which will provide a quiet, peaceful place where patients and their family members can gather. “We were pleased to participate in the enhancements for the new hospital and believe that our contributions to fund the Reflection Center will contribute to the healing environment that we hope to foster in this new building,” added Bunkers.
One hundred percent of the donations to the Expanding the Dream campaign will be used to fund the Special Project Features. Allina Hospitals & Clinics is fully responsible for the funding the construction of the replacement hospital, which is expected to open upon its completion in late 2009. The total value of the new not-for-profit hospital construction project is $51.6 million. Twenty acres of land was donated by the Owatonna Clinic-Mayo Health System several years ago and was recently valued at $2.6 million.
The new Owatonna Hospital will be built from the ground up with the needs of patients and family members at the forefront in planning, design and architecture. The two-story, 38-bed hospital will contain more than 140,000 square feet and include private patient rooms; expanded surgery suites, Emergency Department; inpatient unit, Sleep Lab, Birth Center and Mental Health Unit; diagnostic imaging; rehabilitation services; ample parking as well as the special project feature enhancements. The new Owatonna hospital will be connected to the newly expanded Owatonna Clinic’s current 26th Street location.
About Owatonna Hospital
The new Owatonna Hospital will be connected to the current Owatonna Clinic-Mayo Health System 26th Street location, off Interstate 35, creating a health care campus. The facility will be designed to create an environment for providing high quality, safe, patient-centered care for residents in the region.
Owatonna Hospital and Allina Hospitals & Clinics are taking a leadership role to promote healthy eating and physical activity through their heart healthy living and obesity initiatives with an emphasis on childhood obesity. Over the next five years, Allina and Owatonna Hospital will be working with community organizations to improve nutrition and increase physical activity to decrease obesity and improve heart health.
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