Trustees choose firms for hospital expansion

The Brookings hospital will have a dramatically different look in 2017 when a major expansion of the 50-year-old building is completed. A new entryway on what is now the north end of the building will serve both the hospital and a new attached medical office building. The current brick faade of the structure will be replaced as well. Construction, expected to last 21 months, could begin as early as June of this year. One of the more dramatic features of the renovated Brookings hospital will be a soaring glass entry that will take visitors and patients to both the new medical office building and the hospital. Construction costs for the expansion are pegged at about $35 million, and soft costs for equipment and furnishings will add about $10 million. $45-million project to be completed in 2017

BROOKINGS The start of construction is still four months away, but the board of trustees and administrative planners are making major headway in the $45 million expansion and renovation of the Brookings hospital, according to Jason Merkley, Brookings Health System CEO.

Merkley announced this week that the board has chosen two nationally known Minneapolis firms, HGA and Kraus-Anderson, to take leading roles in the hospital makeover.

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