The project will optimize current bed capacity at the state’s largest hospital and modernize its facilities.
It calls for increasing the number of single rooms available to patients and adding new surgical and
treatment areas that conform to 21st century standards. About $50 million of the total project cost will be invested in primary and specialty care facilities through the hospital’s Maine Medical Partners multispecialty practice organization.
The project also involves the replacement of the largest parking garage on the campus, a 1,200-space
structure used by employees that sits along Congress Street. The need to replace that garage creates an opportunity to reorient the hospital’s main entrance to Congress Street, one of the city’s main
thoroughfares. The hospital’s current main entrance faces Bramhall Street in the city’s largely residential West End.
“Patient-centered care is more than a slogan for Maine Medical Center,” said Richard Petersen,
