What environmentally friendly or green building designs will the new Wishard design include?
Wishard will build new, more efficient facilities to LEED standards. Wishard plans to include a green roof and other sustainable features. These environmentally-conscious selections will provide long-term cost savings and reduce Wishard’s energy costs and use. Instead of building a new Wishard, why not move to the vacant St. Francis facility in Beech Grove? Wishard’s location on the IUPUI campus is central to its patients. The on-campus location allows Wishard to partner with the IU School of Medicine, so Wishard can be staffed with outstanding physicians from the IU School of Medicine faculty. To relocate Wishard to Beech Grove would cut off its vital services from many of the people that need it most, and would distance Wishard’s life-saving critical care facilities – such as its adult Level One Trauma center and adult Level One burn center – from the epicenter of Marion County’s population. Even if this location was not paramount, the abandoned St. Francis facility would not provide
