Integrating medical suite services within a continuum of care is what Presbyterian Homes & Services has in mind for 14.6 acres of land currently owned by Hudson Hospital & Clinics in Hudson, Wisconsin. Presbyterian Homes plans to purchase the land—a wooded area adjacent to the hospital—and build a 160-unit senior apartment and assisted living complex on it. The shared-campus concept calls for 95 independent living, 46 assisted living, and 19 memory care residences in a four-story building, along with a 6,000 square-foot medical office suite and a 24,000 square foot town center with a bistro, theater, library, auditorium, chapel, fitness center, and hair salon. A future 50-suite “care center,” if needed, is also included in the plans. Pope Associates, an architectural firm, is designing the project.
“A shared-campus concept offers opportunities to explore new ways of collaborating on care and transitions between acute, subacute and long-term care that would not be possible without a shared campus concept,” according to the Presbyterian Homes project description. The project has been approved by the local City Council but the Planning Commission must approve the final development plans before the project can proceed.
Presbyterian Homes of Minnesota was incorporated in 1953 in order to build a home for the elderly on donated lakeshore property in Arden Hills, Minnesota. Now called Presbyterian Homes & Services, the organization serves more than 20,000 seniors in 40 communities located in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Hudson Hospital & Clinics—which also opened in 1953 and is now part of HealthPartners family of care in Bloomington, Minnesota—is a 25-bed critical access hospital in western Wisconsin with the region’s only hospitalist services and its only 24/7 emergency medical physicians, who handle more than 10,000 patient visits each year in the Emergency Center. Hospital partners already operating on the campus include a physician group, an orthopedic center, a hearing and speech clinic, and interventional pain specialists.
