The renovation/expansion of Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, Minn., will add two new inpatient floors, revamp the surgery center and make all patient rooms private, according to an article on the Star Tribune website.

“We do have an older building,” said Roxanna Gapstur, senior vice president and chief operating officer at Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital. “Our room sizes and things are probably not as spacious as what you would see in many of the other Twin Cities hospitals. And then, we do have a lot of semiprivate rooms.”

The project won’t add hospital beds, but it will create a new sterilization and decontamination area to improve flow to and from the surgery area, the article said.

Currently, more than one-third of hospital rooms at Methodist are double occupancy. The new private rooms will feature more room and quieter surroundings for friends and family to visit patients.

Read the article.