Essentia Health Vision Northland
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Essentia Health is engaged in the construction of a new flagship hospital.
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The hospital will streamline services, redefine the continuum of care, and invigorate downtown Duluth.
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The facades of the building provide a refined urban scale with brick or stone.
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Elevation
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The public, patients, and visitors may access the roof garden overlooking Lake Superior.
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The outpatient entry and atrium are located along the iconic Superior Street.
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A welcoming plaza featuring canopies and a winter garden will provide a hotel-like entry.
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The Northland project will bring nature inside, combined with a hospitality approach to Interior Design.
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The multiple levels serve the many outpatient floors that will occupy the pavilion.
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The winter garden is a generous hospitality environment soaked with daylight.
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The lounges are designed with curvilinear trellis structures, planters, and large scale graphic images.
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Patient room.
HONORABLE MENTION – 2020 Healthcare Design Showcase
Essentia Health’s Vision Northland will invest in the future of Duluth, Minn. Located on the bluffs above Lake Superior’s western shore, Essentia’s new flagship hospital will streamline health services, redefine the continuum of care, and invigorate downtown Duluth with engaging public amenities. The new healthcare campus will provide spectacular views of Lake Superior by taking advantage of the waterfront topography. The project combines renovating multiple existing healthcare facilities and a major new inpatient and outpatient building that extends from Second Street to the north all the way down the hillside to Superior Street, the city’s major commercial and entertainment center.
A multi-story inpatient bed tower located uphill at Second Street will rise above the roof garden, and serve as a beacon signifying the presence of state-of-the-art healthcare services and Essentia’s commitment to the economic vitality of the city and the region.
Essentia envisions a hospital environment that is comfortable, welcoming and efficient for patients, visitors, and staff. Public areas will have the engaging warmth of hospitality spaces, with natural materials and themes of healing, nature and the rich narrative of the region’s history and peoples.
Vision Northland will consolidate facilities and improve efficiency and the delivery of state-of-the-art healthcare. Additionally, the new facility creates a nexus for downtown recreation, economic revitalization, and visionary healthcare services for the people of Duluth. Program includes new surgical and perioperative platform including 22 ORs, new emergency department, new aulatory platform, and new support services.
Project category: Project in progress
Chief administrator: Dr. Robert V. Erickson, MD, Vision Northland physician advisor
Firm: EwingCole, www.ewingcole.com
Design team: EwingCole (architect, interior designer, structural engineer, MEP engineer); McGough Construction (general contractor); LHB (civil engineering and renovation)
Total building area (sq. ft.): 928,000
Construction cost/sq. ft.: $865
Total construction cost (excluding land): $800 million
Completed: July 2022
