St. Paul, Minn.-based Regions Hospital began construction of its $75 million, 166,000-square-foot birthing center, according to The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.
The new center, slated to open in 2020, will house water birthing suites and an expanded neonatal intensive care unit.
The project kicked off more than one year after St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul shuttered its maternity ward due to a lower patient demand.
The project is separate from Regions' 55-bed expansion approved by Minnesota regulators earlier this year.