HOSPITAL

Continuing our 32-year relationship, Kraemer Brothers created a new replacement hospital on a scenic 115-acre site. Prior to construction, we assisted our longtime client with important preconstruction input on items such as renovate/expand vs. build new, site analysis and benchmarking tours of other facilities. When it came to construction, we completed a 35-bed, 150,000-square-foot facility in an aggressive 20-month schedule. This state-of- the-art facility features expanded surgical services with six large operating rooms and 21 private prep and recovery rooms. Other features include a rehabilitation center, large obstetrics and emergency departments and an administration suite. As evidence of the accuracy of our preconstruction services, the final cost of this project was one percent below the initial program budget. With ample natural light throughout the building and access to nature and walking trails, a true healing environment has been created where the area’s health care professionals can do their best work while patients can do their best healing.

CLINIC

The Sauk Prairie Medical Office Building, built for a private developer, is a two-story, multi-tenant 58,000- square-foot facility connected to the new hospital. With our knowledge of medical office building construction, we were able to work closely with the project’s design and engineering team to value engineer the building, enhance its design appeal and maximize the owner’s budget. The brick, stone and glazing materials beautifully match the hospital for a seamless merge of facilities

ER ADDITION

The Gundersen Boscobel Area Hospital expanded its facility with a 11,700 square-foot addition allowing for expanded emergency services, including new exam rooms, a special decontamination room, a double ambulance garage, new helicopter pad, centralized entrance and registration area, and a holding cell for patients from Supermax. Another significant enhancement included the renovation of the facility’s mechanical rooms and two new boilers.

RENOVATIONS

Our most recent projects for Gundersen Health System consisted of remodeling the corridors and renovating the nurses’ station, a 5,300 square foot project. Bringing in our experience finish carpenters, we installed new flooring, walls, and ceiling, as well as applying new casework and cabinetry at the nurses’ station, repurposing the area to meet the hospital’s needs. While needing to keep the hospital operational, Kraemer Brothers crews worked closely with the hospital staff to plan the work. Preventing excess construction dust and contamination in the hospital, we added temporary partition walls with negative air pressure, keeping the outside areas clean. Soon after the renovation project finished, Gundersen Health System selected Kraemer Brothers to renovate two existing rooms into one 1,000 square foot infusion service suite with 5 new bays, a cleansing room, and an office. These projects have helped the hospital expand their services and provide an inviting atmosphere to patients.

From our first project in 1991, Kraemer Brothers has completed several expansion and renovation projects to the SSM Health St. Clare Hospital and Health Services facilities including new imaging and emergency departments, an ambulance garage, and hospital entrance upgrades. Other projects include birthing center additions, remodeling of existing space for an Alzheimer’s unit, remodel of its surgical unit, MRI suite build-out, and a radiation/oncology addition. In addition to the Baraboo primary hospital, Kraemer Brothers participated in two clinics for our client, one in Lake Delton and another in Wisconsin Dells. An Urgent Care clinic, the Lake Delton facility features multiple exam rooms, general radiology, and treatment rooms. Our latest addition to the Lake Delton clinic included 6 exam rooms, nurses’ station, and a pair of offices. Around the same time as the Lake Delton addition, Kraemer Brothers completed a large 15,000 square foot addition to the Wisconsin Dells clinic. The larger of the two clinics, the Wisconsin Dells clinic focuses on therapeutic services. Featuring 6 provider offices, 22 exam rooms, treatment rooms, imaging rooms, blood draw stations, laboratory services rooms, and workstations for the nurses and care teams, this facility can accomodate more patients than before.