MDI Hospital Construction to Upgrade Key Infrastructure Impacts Campus Parking & Traffic Flow
Mount Desert Island Hospital is excited to announce the construction upgrade to our facility’s aging mechanical infrastructure. The construction will begin with the Core Generation Renovation Project, enhancing our mechanical efficiency.
This project will consolidate and replace key mechanical systems, improving ventilation, heating, and electrical infrastructure and providing the energy efficiency and modern equipment needed to support future renovation and expansion.
The construction, began on September 25, 2023 and will have an impact on the main hospital campus parking, entrances, and wayfinding for the subsequent 18 months. All scheduled patients and visitors to MDI Hospital will now enter through the entrance located on Wayman Lane and follow a one-way traffic pattern around the main building. Visible and clear signage will be placed in order help guide patients and visitors to registration and scheduled services.
We ask that anyone coming to our main hospital campus refer to the parking map as designations have changed to accommodate our patients and visitors. Employee parking updates will be posted on the Pulse as additional off-season parking for staff will become available come November 1.
Patients coming for emergent services through our Emergency Department (ED) via private vehicle, will follow the signage to the rear of the hospital on the Wayman side for drop off at the ED entrance. This includes OB patients in labor. Any visitors who are not present at the drop-off of the ED patient, must park in designated visitor parking and enter through the Wayman Lane entrance.
Thank you in advance for your patience as we make these important campus upgrades. If you have questions about an upcoming appointment, please contact your provider’s office.
For simplicity and clarity, here are the key community takeaways:
- If you are coming to MDI Hospital for a scheduled appointment, including but not limited to; surgery, lab work, medical imaging, vaccinations, physical therapy, occupational therapy, or oncology, you will enter through Wayman Lane.
- If you are being driven or driving yourself to the Emergency Department in a private vehicle, you will follow signage to the rear of the hospital and be dropped off at the ED entrance. This includes women in labor who need to be admitted to OB for labor and delivery.
- Please note that this ED drop-off should be used only for patients who need to be seen immediately. Any unnecessary traffic in this area could impact the flow of other emergencies and emergency vehicles.
- Visitors of any kind must enter through the Wayman Lane entrance.
- Ambulance service will be unimpeded. All local EMS services have been notified of this construction and given detailed information about what their path is to the ED.