Fairview Building $47M Care Center

MAPLE GROVE, MN-Fairview Health Services, in partnership with University of Minnesota Physicians, will start building a $47-million, 126,000-sf ambulatory care center on its 27 acres at the intersection of Ferndale and 99th avenues, near Maple Grove High School. The Fairview Maple Grove Ambulatory Care Center will provide primary and specialty clinic services ranging from pediatrics to women’s health and cancer care.

The design firm of HGA is providing engineering services and Knutson Construction Services is the contractor on the project. The ambulatory clinic is part of a $106-million proposal it has before the Health Department. Pending legislative approval, Fairview hopes to build a 120-bed hospital complete with emergency and trauma services on the Fairview Maple Grove Health Care Campus. The hospital and campus will have the potential to expand to 284 beds.

Fairview Health Services recently appointed Mary Bakken senior vice president and has put her in charge of leading the development of the Fairview Maple Grove Health Care Campus. Fairview is one of three providers competing to be chosen to build a Maple Grove hospital that would serve the northwest suburbs of the Twin Cities. Fairview says it is the only one that can have a hospital under construction in the next 12 months, and the one that would provide the broadest array of services.