Olmsted Medical Center

Our History

• Olmsted Medical Center began in 1949 in downtown Rochester as the solo practice of Harold Wente, MD.
• Opened in 1955, the Olmsted Community Hospital ended its county affiliation and became part of Olmsted Medical Center in 1996. It is now called Olmsted Medical Center--Hospital.
• In 2014, Olmsted Medical Center celebrates its 65th year of service to southeastern Minnesota.

What We Do

• Olmsted Medical Center is an integrated community healthcare provider known for convenient, expert, and personal primary care.
• Olmsted Medical Center offers more than 20 specialties.
• A not-for-profit organization, Olmsted Medical Center cares for patients regardless of their ability to pay, and in 2013 made community contributions totaling $45,086,470 (27% of total operating expenses).

Where We Work

165 clinicians and 1,200 staff provide healthcare services at 18 locations:

• two multi-specialty outpatient clinics
• physical/occupational therapy and sports medicine facilities,
• two walk-in FastCare retail clinics in Rochester’s Shopko stores,
• one walk-in Skyway Clinic providing University of Minnesota--Rochester student health services and non-urgent retail care to the general public,
• a Level IV trauma hospital licensed for 61 beds with a 24-hour emergency department and BirthCenter
• and primary-care branch clinics in 10 southeastern Minnesota municipalities (Byron, Cannon Falls, Chatfield, Pine Island, Plainview, Preston, Spring Valley, St. Charles, Stewartville, and Wanamingo). OMC is the sole healthcare provider in eight of these communities.

How We Have Grown

Recent expansion includes:

• current construction of a $28 million, 80,000-square-foot Women’s Health Pavilion addition to OMC’s hospital in southeast Rochester (projected to open late 2014)
• new branch clinic facilities in Spring Valley (Jan. 2014) and Cannon Falls (August 2013)
• a $3.3 million, 15,000-square-foot Sports Medicine and Athletic Performance facility in northwest Rochester (Dec. 2013)
• OMC’s Skyway Clinic in downtown Rochester’s 318 Commons building (Sept. 2012),
• a $20 million, 64,000-square-foot outpatient clinic in northwest Rochester (Oct. 2011).
• Olmsted Medical Center is adding/expanding programs in telehealth, wound care, orthopedics, bariatric surgery, women's health, non-surgical cardiology, nuclear radiology, pain management, and sports medicine/athletic performance.