M Health Clinics and Surgery Center (fmr. Ambulatory Care)

[FISHMANPET]

This place is weird. There's no lobbies, no waiting areas, no receptionists. You can check in with anyone standing around holding a tablet, and they take your picture and give you a badge that tracks you in the building. That way when it's time for your appointment you can be found wherever you are. There's no forms to fill out, if you have to answer questions or something you get a tablet to use for that.

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[Silophant]

Sounds like the future.

[MNdible]

You know who's going to love that? Old sick people.

[seanrichardryan]

Without a lobby, where exactly are you wandering around? Catch any surgeries?

[FISHMANPET]

It's all lobby I guess. I'm thinking of the standard clinic paradigm where you go into the waiting room and walk up to the desk and check in and sit in the waiting room and none of that really exists. There's space generally outside clinics, but it's all very freeform. For example I had two appointments, one on the 4th floor, and another a half hour later on the 5th floor. I got checked in for both at once on the 4th floor and my hand therapist for my first appointment came to get me which was nowhere near anything, and then about 5 seconds later the nurse for my second appointment showed up as well.

[seanrichardryan]

Ah OK. That's how it works at Mayo.

[talindsay]

So what you're saying is they take the "ambulatory care" part of the clinic description seriously.

[mattaudio]

Why was this built so far away from the other two university medical campuses?

[TroyGBiv]

The u of m plan is to continue to extend other medical buildings out into those blocks closer to the 94 entrance/exit. It is all being redesigned as the new “campus gateway”. Those fist few blocks on the left or east side may have more “outpatient” type functions and then if you continue to drive straight ahead on Huron there are those blocks that there are proposing a few towers right next to the stadium LRT station.