St. Vincent’s HealthCare said Tuesday it will build a $55 million heart and vascular pavilion at St. Vincent’s Riverside.
Groundbreaking is planned for summer with a projected opening in fall 2019.
The pavilion will comprise 30 medical and surgical rooms and 30 intensive care rooms.
It primarily will be used for heart and vascular needs, including two nursing units for patients who undergo open-heart surgeries and other cardiovascular procedures.
“This project will enable us to even more comprehensively and holistically meet our community’s health needs at the right place, time and value, with readily available convenient access to state-of-the-art, market-leading care,” said Tom VanOsdol, president and CEO of St. Vincent’s HealthCare.
The pavilion will be on the riverfront along King Street adjacent to the hospital where Seton Hall previously stood.
That building was torn down in 2016.
St. Vincent’s is part of Ascension, the nation’s largest Catholic and nonprofit health system.