Roper St. Francis Healthcare celebrated a major milestone recently with the completion of the building design for the future relocated Roper Hospital campus in Charleston, South Carolina. Teammates spent more than 550 hours designing the hospital building and its various rooms, ensuring practical, experience-based feedback from the very people who will care for patients in that space.
To mark the occasion, the Roper St. Francis Foundation hosted members of the Roper St. Francis Healthcare and Foundation boards of directors at the former Verizon building on the North Charleston site where the full-scale mock-up rooms have been housed for design input. Board members met with architects, builders and frontline teammates to learn more about the hospital’s design and celebrate progress made so far.
The mock-up rooms — including ICU rooms, trauma bays, patient rooms and ED observation rooms — featured QR codes linking to 3D renderings for easy access. Some rooms, such as the mocked-up hybrid operating room, offered virtual reality tours using Oculus goggles.
Demolition work on the site began in late January, clearing structures including a bank and much of a former Amazon facility. Learn more about the project here.
The Roper St. Francis Foundation has launched Imagine: The Campaign for Roper St. Francis Healthcare, a $100-million fundraising initiative that will run through 2030, aligning with and supporting Roper Hospital’s relocation timeline.
