Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Saint Francis Medical Center will open its $84 million Heart Hospital and Cancer Institute in July of 2011. Located in Cape Girardeau, Mo., the 208,000-sf facility will provide advanced diagnostic and treatment technologies in a patient-centered environment. The Heart Hospital houses 60 private acute care rooms, a 10-bed cardiac ICU, six ultrasound rooms, and five cardiac catheterization labs. The Cancer Institute houses physician offices, 35 chemotherapy treatment stations, four private rooms, two linear accelerators, a laboratory, imaging, and surgical suites. Kiefner Brothers Construction was the general contractor for the project, which broke ground in 2008.
