A number of large health care projects have managed to weather the coronavirus pandemic and will be completed this year.
Among them is the new CHI Health Clinic Yankee Hill, which the organization says will be the first of its kind in Lincoln.
CHI Health spokeswoman Taylor Miller said plans are for the clinic at 40th Street and Yankee Hill Road to open sometime in early fall.
The clinic will be the new home of CHI Health Clinic Southwest and its family health physicians providing primary care services, and it also will house a Priority Care location for everyday urgent care needs.
Other services that will be available include full-time behavioral health care, cardiology and orthopedic specialty clinics, diagnostic and lab testing, and physical and occupational therapy with Central Nebraska Rehab Services.
CHI Health also has two projects on tap for St. Elizabeth. The first is the expansion of the hospital gift shop. Work will begin in March and include renovations and an expansion that will double the size of the space. The project is expected to be completed by summer.
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The health system also plans a new Women’s Health Center in the medical office plaza space at St. Elizabeth, where the current mammography center is. The new center will offer mammography, ultrasound and bone density screenings and also will house the multidisciplinary breast clinic, which offers genetic testing and a team-based approach to cancer care.
The city’s other hospital system, Bryan Health, will finish its $47 million Bryan East Campus expansion project, which began in 2019.
Work currently is proceeding on the fourth and final phase, which will add two specialty procedure rooms for bronchoscopy procedures and 12 new surgery prep/recovery rooms to merge the needs of all surgery patients into one space. Construction is scheduled to be finished sometime this summer.
Other projects Bryan is doing this year include adding a new MRI machine to East Campus and creating a new angiography suite and a new inpatient dialysis center at West Campus.
And a significant amount of work is likely to occur ahead of a planned opening in 2023 for Bryan’s $45 million April Sampson Cancer Center. A Bryan spokesman said the site at 40th Street and Rokeby Road currently is undergoing dirt and foundation work to prepare for construction of the center.
Several of Lincoln’s other health care systems have big construction projects in the works.
Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals has made significant progress on the $57 million expansion and renovation of its Lincoln campus.
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The entire project, which includes a 112,000-square-foot expansion that will add a new patient wing, state-of-the-art conference center, new cafeteria and dining area, gardens and green space, remodeled therapy gyms and 59 new private rooms, won’t be fully complete until spring 2023, but parts of it will open this year.
Madonna spokesman Dan Corey said a new main entrance is set to open in March and the new patient wing will open in early summer.
On a smaller scale, Nebraska Neurosurgery Group plans to complete its new offices and surgery center at 27th Street and Old Cheney Road this summer.
Dr. Daniel Tomes, who runs the practice along with his colleague, Dr. Benjamin Bixenmann, said the office portion of the project should open in June, with the ambulatory surgery center set to open in July.
One other large health care project that’s scheduled to open this year is new offices for the Nebraska Pain Institute.
The 40,000-square-foot, two-story building near Pine Lake Road and Nebraska 2 is scheduled to open around Labor Day, said Dr. C. Weston Whitten.
It will house the Nebraska Pain Institute Clinic on the second floor and its surgery center on the first floor. There also will be tenant space available on both floors, Whitten said.
PhotosFiles: Tracing St. Elizabeth’s history
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Carriages pull up in front of the first addition to St. Elizabeth Hospital at its original 11th and South street location in this May 1898 photo. The original building is shown in the background. St. Elizabeth, Lincoln’s first general hospital, opened its doors Sept. 17, 1889, in a remodeled 15-room residence at 11th and South streets. Construction began on the first new hospital building in 1891 and it opened in 1893. Additional floors and wings were added through the years. The 1893 unit is at the far southwest corner. When the hospital moved in 1969, the old building was bought by Lancaster County to be operated as a county nursing home called Lancaster Manor — later Lancaster Rehabilitation Center. The hospital’s chapel is still preserved.
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St. Elizabeth Hospital, seen facing South Street in this photo from 1930. The 1893 unit is at the right.
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An aerial shot of St. Elizabeth in 1956 looking east from its location at 11th and South streets. South 13th Street runs across the top of the photo.
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Drs. Roland F. Mueller (from left), Gene Sucha, Gena Lanspa and Robert Buchman take a look at a new lamp that was donated to St. Elizabeth Hospital for use in surgical operations in October 1956.
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St. Elizabeth Hospital seen in this April 1956 photo.
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Lincoln’s original St. Elizabeth Hospital crumbles as the wrecking ball does its job in March 1994 at 11th and South streets.
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Lincoln Mayor Sam Schwartzkopf (left) watches Sister Frances Ann at the St. Elizabeth Hospital groundbreaking in July 1967 at its 70th and O streets location, which would become the hospital’s new home in 1969.
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A shot of construction of St. Elizabeth Hospital on an unknown date.
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Here’s how St. Elizabeth Hospital (right) and the older Lincoln Veterans Hospital looked in September 1968 from their neighborly 70 and O streets location when photographed from a residential point in the Eastridge neighborhood.
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St. Elizabeth Hospital seen in this January 1995 photo. St. Elizabeth moved from its first location at 11th and South streets to its current home at 70th and O streets in 1969.
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Bishop Glennon P. Flavin (back right) of the Diocese of Lincoln dedicates St. Elizabeth Hospital in September 1970.
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Firemen Wes Schiermann (from left), Roger Schwindt and St. Elizabeth nurse Nancy Heckert examine the Circ-o-Lectric bed bought with Lincoln Firemen Benefit Association funds in December 1973.
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Denice Schroeder, a surgical nurse at St. Elizabeth Hospital, puts an anesthetic mask on Brenda Johnson while the other ‘patients’ look on.
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Cuddler volunteer Marilyn Olson takes care of Andrew Stickney, son of Jeffrey and Margaret Stickney of Lincoln, in May 1985.
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Richard Waller, director of radiology at St. Elizabeth Hospital, shows X-rays to Arlo McKeeb and Arlo’s grandmother, Mrs. Anthony DiPaolo in May 1986.
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A child looks on in St. Elizabeth Hospital’s children’s waiting room in May 1970.
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The Rev. Ignatius Lempart, chaplain at St. Elizabeth Community Health Center in May 1985, meditates in the chapel.
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A very tiny baby, Henry Wellensiek, of Syracuse, is seen in his incubator at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Oct. 11, 1953, at the hospital’s original location near 11th and South streets. The hospital moved to its current home near 70th and O streets in 1969.
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Debby (from left), Steve and Owen Berthelsen look over the birthing chair at St. Elizabeth Community Health Center in April 1981.
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Robin Schaffert (left), a technician at St. Elizabeth Hospital in May 1993, tests Trent Carney’s hearing as his mother observes. Shortly after moving to its current location at 70th and O streets, St. Elizabeth opened its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. In 1973, the hospital’s Burn Center opened.
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CHI Health Saint Elizabeth shines in a pink glow for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October 2014. The hospital underwent a $110 million expansion in 2001, which was completed three years later. It tripled the campus’ size, adding a new six-story patient tower, a four-level parking garage and medical plaza building.
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Paramedic/EMTs wheel a simulated Ebola victim in an isolation pod into the CHI Health St. Elizabeth Emergency Room on June 12, 2016 during an Ebola response exercise sponsored by the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department.
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A $1.8 million renovation of the Regional Burn and Wound Center at CHI Health St. Elizabeth — completed earlier this year — includes full-wall images by Lincoln-based conservation photographer Michael Forsberg in each room.
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Colorful murals line the walls of one of the eight rooms at the newly completed CHI Health Pediatric Place at St. Elizabeth. The unit — a unique, specialized eight-bed emergency room built just for kids — was opened with a ribbon-cutting Dec. 3, 2019. The project was made possible through the CHI Health St. Elizabeth Foundation and community donors, who together raised more than $750,000.
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A child-size, multi-colored bear lies on the bed of one of the eight rooms at the newly completed CHI Health Pediatric Place at St. Elizabeth in December. The unit — a unique, specialized 8-bed emergency room built just for kids — was opened with a ribbon-cutting on Dec. 3, 2019. The project was made possible through the CHI Health St. Elizabeth Foundation and gracious community donors, who together raised more than $750,000.