Health Care

River’s Edge Hospital and Clinic continues in an amazing growth pattern and is putting the finishing touches on a $33.8 million renovation and expansion.

Former CEO George Rohrich called 2017 “maybe the hospital’s best year ever” in recapping the finances. Rohrich retired at the end of 2019. The newest CEO, Paula Meskan, was promoted from within in early 2021. She began her tenure at the top in March 2021.

The addition and renovation to River’s Edge added eight patient rooms and two operating rooms and moved the entrance from Dodd Road to an eastern facing one on North Sunrise Drive. Officials hope the hospital will be able to accommodate more surgeries, more specialties and have rooms for emergency room admittances and swing beds. The hospital is currently licensed for up to 25 beds.

The hospital had posted a strong cash positive year in 2015 and has ever since. That’s due in part to an ongoing partnership with Mankato’s Orthopaedic and Fracture Clinic. The hospital is the site for hip, knee and shoulder replacements. Spine surgeries have also started there.

The city-owned facility is a Level IV Trauma Center, providing emergency room physicians, nurses, paramedics and technicians 24 hours a day, and has also expanded its Urgent Care services. River’s Edge Hospital also provides emergency ambulance services to the greater St. Peter area. Funding is provided in part by the River’s Edge Hospital Foundation.

For more information, see riversedgehealth. org.

The River’s Edge campus, on St. Peter’s northwest side, also includes the Mayo Clinic Health System in St. Peter, which offers services on the west wing of the facility. More at mayoclinichealthsystem.org.

Mankato Clinic’s Daniels Health Center, at 1901 North Old Minnesota Ave., is named in honor of one of St. Peter’s first physicians, Asa Wilder Daniels. More information at mankatoclinic.com.

The River Valley Birth Center of St. Peter, at 526 W. Park Row, opened in May 2014, but began offering midwife services in 2009. More information at rivervalleybirthcenter.com.

long-term care

St. Peter is also home to several long-term care facilities, ranging from senior living apartments to memory care accommodations.

There’s Heritage Meadows Senior Living; the Benedictine Living Community of St. Peter; Ecumen St. Peter’s two sister communities – Prairie Hill and Sand Prairie; Pheasant’s Ridge assisted living and memory care; and Good Samaritan Home Care services.

Among other St. Peter health care facilities is the state operated Regional Treatment Center, established in 1866 and located on over 400 acres of land on the city’s south edge.

Health and Human Services

County-based health care services are provided by Nicollet County Social Services, now located in the new Health and Human Services building. The Health and Human Services team led the local response during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and into 2021. For more, visit co.nicollet.mn.us or call 507-9348559.