Advocate Aurora Health Manitowoc Surgical Center

The ongoing Manitowoc Surgical Optimization project is actively enhancing the operation room (OR) capacity, aiming to bring increased capabilities and efficiency to the campus. This expansion involves remodeling the second floor of the hospital, increasing the number of ORs by 50%. The design incorporates flexibility to convert the additional ORs to Ambulatory/ASC billing if needed in the future.

In addition to the new ORs, the project includes the renovation of 9,000 sqft for new endoscopy rooms, procedure rooms, prep/recovery rooms, and post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) bays. The project also includes transforming the Existing Day Surgery Surgical Services into a new Ambulatory Surgical Center, along with 4,000 sqft of renovations for the Sterile Processing Department and Vendor area. Initial enabling phases encompass maximizing food service space utilization, relocating medical records, creating additional hoteling office space, relocating the Physicians’ Lounge, and establishing a Physician On-call Room, along with the relocation of Facilites Space and BioMed Storage.

Construction is being strategically phased to allow occupied space in the existing building to remain fully operations.