Lakeview Hospital is planning a new $400M Stillwater campus and wants your input

Mary Divine, Pioneer Press
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Lakeview Hospital officials are in the midst of designing the hospital’s new $400 million campus in Stillwater, and they are asking the public to weigh in.

“Our goal is to design it with – and for – the community,” hospital officials wrote in the introduction to a new online survey. “We’re hoping you’ll … help us understand what’s most special about our current campus and what you hope for in the new hospital campus.”

The new hospital campus, located at the northeast corner of Minnesota 36 and Manning Avenue, is expected to open in late 2027 or early 2028. It will include a birth center, emergency medicine, advanced critical care, and specialized centers for heart, cancer and orthopedic care.

The new site will give the hospital room to expand and greater visibility, said Lakeview Hospital President Brandi Lunneborg.

The 12-question survey, which is open through May 24, “is one way to connect directly with our patients, visitors and the communities this new campus will serve in Stillwater and across the east metro and western Wisconsin,” she said.

Lakeview officials created the survey with HKS Architects in Chicago, which is designing the new campus in partnership with local architectural firm BWBR. “We’ll use input from it to design the new campus,” Lunneborg said. “It’s the first of many opportunities that community members will have to share ideas and get involved in our new Lakeview Hospital campus.”

Among the survey questions:

  • “What does Lakeview Hospital mean to you and the community?”

  • “What do you hope the new Lakeview Hospital campus will bring to the community?”

  • “How can the new Lakeview Hospital campus support the economy of the area?”

Respondents are asked to list, in order of preference, what they like about the current Lakeview Hospital campus at 927 W. Churchill St., and how they would like to see the new Lakeview Hospital campus “address the natural environment responsibly.”

Questions about roads/trails, access and safety factors also are included, as well as a question about factors that would enhance patients’ and visitors’ “comfort and experience.”

Lunneborg said she is especially excited to see the results from Question No. 10, which asks participants to look at 10 photos and pick two that “spark the feelings they hope to have when visiting the new Lakeview Hospital campus.”

“It includes everything from images of a community garden to health technology to a canoe next to a lake,” she said. “Lakeview Hospital means so many different things to so many different people. We think this question, and really all of the questions, will offer great insight into what our community appreciates at our current location and what they hope to see in the future Lakeview Hospital campus. If something is important to anyone who is responding, we want to understand that.”

The online survey is available in English and Spanish and can be requested in additional languages; a phone survey option will be available next week. Participants who agree to enter their contact information will be entered into a weekly drawing for a $25 gift card.

As work on the hospital’s design progresses, officials anticipate engaging with nearby neighbors over the summer and fall, Lunneborg said.

An official groundbreaking for the new site has not yet been scheduled, she said.

Lakeview Hospital design input

For more information and to access the online survey, go to healthpartners.com/lakeviewexpansion.

To request a paper copy of the survey, email NewLakeviewHospitalCampus@healthpartners.com.

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