Construction progresses in IU Health’s Fishers Community Impact Project

Slated to be completed in 2025, the Fishers Community Impact Project at IU Health Saxony is making great strides this summer.

By Charlotte Stefanski, cstefanski@iuhealth.org, writer for IU Health's Indianapolis Suburban Region

Construction crews and IU Health Saxony team members are staying busy as the Fishers Community Impact Project (FCIP) progresses throughout this summer.

The $300 million investment includes a significant expansion of the IU Health Saxony Hospital campus and services, and the addition of offsite, outpatient access to primary care and specialists to more holistically meet the needs of what has become one of the fastest growing areas in the state—Fishers and the northeast suburbs of Indianapolis.

"With the several construction projects happening around the hospital campus, almost every team member has or is being impacted by the ongoing work,” says Carl Zenor, regional program manager for Planning in the IU Health Indianapolis Suburban Region. “The Saxony team has taken these challenges head on and continues to impress us with how flexible and accommodating they are. Every day, we get to see the progress of the tower and renovation spaces, which helps build excitement and keeps everyone’s energy up.”

There are several active projects within the scope of the Fishers Community Impact Project, including:

• IU Health is gearing up to open a new location in McCordsville—an outpatient physician office development that will offer primary care, OB/GYN and cardiovascular services. The new McCordsville Medical Office Building (MOB) is nearing completion and will officially open early this fall.
  

• Renovations are continuing in the Emergency Department and the Riley Children’s Health Pediatric Emergency Medicine space.
  
  Imaging Services recently received its second MRI machine, a 3T magnet. When the Fishers Community Impact Project is complete, the department will double in size.

• In the hospital’s lower level, crews are working on reconfiguring space and installing a new wall washer in the Central Sterile department. 

• Renovations have begun in the Cardiovascular suite in the hospital’s Medical Office Building to add four new exam rooms. 

• The renovated Central Utility Plant is receiving heavy machinery and an upgrade to many of the essential components that keep the hospital campus running. 

• Finally, work is underway both inside and outside of the new bed tower. The interior team is working on finishing up framing on the second and third floor while other teams are working on drywall and finish work on the first floor and in the lower level. Exterior teams are putting the final touches on the outside of the building and teams have begun some of the pre-work to ready the site for landscaping and driveways.