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St. Andrew's Health Center moves forward in ER project

Scott Wagar

12/17/2013

St. Andrew’s Health Center has opened bids for the center’s renovation project of its Emergency Room and will begin to move forward to advance its ER in size, technology and comfort for its patients.

In the bid process, St. Andrew’s has three different bids for the general contractor, mechanical and electrical. The companies awarded the bids are as follows:

  •  David Parrill Construction of Bottineau was awarded the general contract with a bid of $144,500.
  •  C&C Plumbing and Heating, LLP, of Minot was granted the mechanical contract with a bid of $106,323.
  •  Dietzler Electric, LLC, of Larimore received the electrical contract with a bid of $43,100.

With the bids chosen from St. Andrew’s, the health center has now sent the bids to the North Dakota Department of Health (NDDH) for its approval.

Outside of the bids, the health facility has planned to relocate its ER to the second floor of the hospital while the ER room is being refurbished. Like the bids, the plans to relocate the ER have also been sent to the NDDH for its approval.

If the NDDH approves the bids and plans, the renovation work of the ER will start on Jan. 6, 2014, and all patients to the ER will be seen in its temporary ER on the second floor.

The estimated time to complete the project will be 10 to 11 weeks and the health center will sustain its normal, every day operations.

The chapel and rural mental health consortium office will also be re-located with the chapel being moved to the second floor, while the mental health consortium office will be moved to an available office space.   

The ER will increase in size from two beds to four beds, and will be a state of the art department to care for St. Andrew’s patients in the most professional and kindhearted manner.  

The cost of the ER renovations is estimated at $293,923 and St. Andrew’s has started a fundraising campaign to finance the project.

Jodi Atkinson, president and CEO of St. Andrew’s Health Center, is pleased to see the ER project moving forward because there is a necessity for a larger ER. She added that since 2010, there has also been a 33 percent increase in ER visits.

“The demand is there,” Atkinson said.