

The process for the building is years in the making, said St.Vincent Chief Operating Officer Jen Alderfer. Jansezian said that while labor may be able to build faster, it’s not really feasible to push the timeline faster given volatility in construction. Consultants and architects who specialize in medical construction said that supply-chain shortages and a tight labor market mean ordering products years in advance. That’s part of the reason why the plans will take at least five years before they’re complete. Jansezian said the transfer of patients will likely happen in less than a day, and only after staff feels comfortable with a new system and space. Sometime, probably in 2028, the new building and hospital will come online. During that time, the current hospital, which covers the better half of an entire city block, will continue to operate while new construction is underway. The construction of the facility will take at least five years, said Krikor Jansezian, the chief operating officer of St.

The hospital’s historical footprint, coupled with the convenient location, means that the new hospital site won’t necessarily change, but the campus will as health officials plan for the growing urban center as well as providing regional support for the state’s frontier healthcare landscape. Vincent will remain where it’s been, and it will build a new hospital where a large parking lot sits along North 27 th Street, a busy corridor that connects with Interstate 90, Billings Heights and the airport. However, when all the options were laid out, St. The healthcare company had considered locating somewhere else in town – on the west end where it owns land near Shiloh Crossing, or possibly in Billings Heights. As the merger passed just the 90-day mark, Billings’ oldest hospital announced plans to construct a new hospital facility downtown, on the same campus it’s occupied for more than a century.
