Regional Care Pavilion

CPH Undergoing Major Construction Project

In early 2022, Canton-Potsdam Hospital (CPH) submitted a Certificate of Need to New York State requesting permission to make expansions to the Hospital at 50 Leroy Street, Potsdam. The Hospital has since received approval from the Department of Health to proceed with constructing the Regional Care Pavilion (RCP).

The multi-million project is expected to include three main areas: patient rooms, the Emergency Department, and the main entrance/lobby.

The Hospital's Main Entrance and Emergency Entrance moved to the back-side of the facility on Cottage Street in October 2022. Patients and visitors wishing to enter the Hospital are asked to park in the main lot also located on Cottage Street.

For a first-hand look at the driving and parking route, along with the new entrances, watch this two minute video

RCP: From News to Stats

- Beam Signing Ceremony Held at CPH (3/3/23)
- Structural Streel Work Begins (1/17/23)
- CPH Cottage Street to Become 1-Way (12/7/22)
- Demolition Work Begins at CPH (10/26/22)
- CPH Entrances Move October 17 (10/14/22)
- CPH Preparing for New Entrances and Parking (10/4/22)
- Lift Arms Installed on Cottage Street (9/23/22)
- Two Day Closure of Cottage Street (9/7/22)
- Additional Cottage Street Closure Dates (8/9/22)
- Temporary Closure of CPH's Cottage Street (7/26/22)
- Relocate Hospital entry one floor above the current location; level ground grading
- Expand Main Lobby
- New Gift Shop
- Coffee Kiosk
- Expand the ED by adding 11 Patient Treatment rooms for a new total of 28
- Expand the ED Waiting Area
- Create Triage Rooms with a sub-waiting area
- Create 4 Flex Exam Rooms
- Create 4 Resuscitation Rooms/Trauma Room
- New Emergency Entrance off Cottage Street
- Build a new 4-story “wing” off the north-west corner of the Hospital
- Increase the number of licensed medical/surgical patient beds from the current 63 to 78
- The new wing will include:
  - 60 Private/Single Occupancy, enlarged patient rooms (30 rooms on each of the 2^nd and 3^rd floors)
  - 6 Acuity Adjustable rooms per floor
  - Floor space for staff collaboration
  - Support Services staging
  - Strategically placed Nurses’ Stations
The Main Entrance, Emergency Department Entrance, and Rescue Squad Bays will temporarily be moved to Cottage Street this summer, and remain in use for several months.

Patients and visitors to the Hospital or Emergency Department will be asked to park in the large existing lot across the street from the Hospital on Cottage Street.

Behavioral Health, and Sleep Lab patients at 20 Cottage Street will enter the building from the back.

Patients and visitor parking for the Center for Cancer Care or Leroy Outpatient Center will not change.

View a map of the flip toward the bottom of this page.
The entire project is expected to take a total duration of two years; enabling work will commence in May 2022, and primary construction is slated to begin in August 2022; completion is expected in 2024. We want to assure our patients and visitors that there will be no impact on patient care throughout the project. While things may look different, our medical, emergency, and clinical departments will remain fully functional.

We encourage you and the community as a whole to visit our dedicated web pages often for the latest updates on how parking, drop-off/pick-up, and entrance onto the campus and into the Hospital will be affected.