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J.A. WEDUM RESIDENTIAL HOSPICE
9350 Noble Parkway, Brooklyn Park
Type: Medical
Size: 18,433 square feet
Units: 12
Cost: $5 million
Developer: Allina Health Systems
Details: Minneapolis-based Allina Health Systems has gained the necessary Brooklyn Park city approvals -- though not yet all the funding -- to build what it says will be a template for a new type of residential hospice.
The J.A. Wedum Residential Hospice is planned to have 12 units in a one-story building overlooking a quiet pond adjacent to the Edinburgh USA Golf Course. Just off the Hwy. 610-Noble Avenue cloverleaf, the spot is behind a new 10,700-square-foot Allina medical clinic. The clinic and hospice would share the intersection's southeast corner.
Gloria Cade, director of Allina's hospice program, says the healthcare provider is doing something new in end-of-life care in the Twin Cities. The facility, she said, is meant to be the prototype for what it believes is an emerging medical market -- hospice living units that have the look and feel of upscale condominiums.
"The very few hospices that we have in the Twin Cities often have waiting lists," Cade says. "Hospice care is something that's really needed, and I think this will be a very impressive example of what can be done." The facility was designed with the help of consultants Weatherbee Resources Inc., of Hyannis, Mass., a national leader in starting and developing end-of-life care programs. They determined the Twin Cities was under-served by about 60 residential hospice beds, Cade added.
The units will include patient rooms as well as sitting rooms and private patios, with plenty of common areas for family members, visitors and staff to mingle. The hospice's exterior is meant to impart a homelike feel, using fiber cement board siding and stone, columns and architectural windows, topped with an intricate pitched roof.
Cade said construction of the hospice is still dependent on raising half of the nonprofit project's building costs: $2.5 million of its $5 million price tag has yet to be collected in a tough atmosphere for charitable giving.
DON JACOBSON
Don Jacobson, a freelance writer based in St. Paul, can be contacted at hotproperty.startribune@gmail.com.
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