Family and friends play an important role in our patients' recovery, so visitors are welcome. Woodwinds features open visiting hours, but we do ask that you be respectful of our patients' need for rest.
Smoke-Free Campus
Woodwinds is proud to offer a smoke-free environment for our patients, visitors and staff. Smoking is prohibited in the building and on campus grounds. There are designated smoking receptacles across the street.
Wireless Internet Available
Woodwinds provides wireless Internet access so patients, family members or other guests can bring their laptop computers and use the Internet onsite. Stop at any information desk or nursing station to obtain a card with the password to access the Internet.
Please note that Woodwinds cannot guarantee the security of information sent over the wireless network. Also, web sites considered inappropriate will be blocked.
We understand the important role loved ones play in the healing and recovery process, that's why there are no "visiting hours." Guests are invited to visit as long as they'd like, keeping in mind our patient's need for rest.
Family members are welcome to remain overnight when appropriate. Each patient room is designed with sleeping accomodations.
Family members
Family members can visit patients at any time. If you are visiting a family
member after 8:00 pm, you will be asked to check in at the Emergency Department welcome desk. For the safety and security of our patients, staff
and guests, only the hospital's emergency entrance is open
after 8:00 pm.
Designed with the look and feel of an “up north” destination, the gift shop at Woodwinds combines amenity with necessity for patients, visitors and staff. In addition to unique gifts, floral arrangements and cards, The Lodge also offers an extensive collection of patient comfort and self-care items. The Lodge offers a quaint beverage bar as well, so you can enjoy browsing in the gift shop with your favorite brew - coffee, tea or juice.
Hours
The Lodge is located near the main entrance and is open:
Monday through Friday
8:30 am to 5:30 pm
Arrange for a flower or gift delivery
If you'd like help arranging for a flower or gift delivery for a patient hospitalized at Woodwinds, please call 651-232-0071.
Pharmacy
The Woodwinds pharmacy is located in the Lodge gift shop. To learn more about the pharmacy, click here.
Family members are welcome to remain overnight (when appropriate). Each patient room is designed with sleeping accommodations because we understand the important part they play in the healing and recovery process.
If you are looking for lodging near Woodwinds, the following hotels are located near the hospital:
Hampton Inn
1450 Weir Drive
Woodbury, MN 55125
651-578-2822
Red Roof Inn
1806 Wooddale Drive
Woodbury, MN 55125
651-738-7160
1-800-THE-ROOF
Wildwood Lodge
8511 Hudson Boulevard
Lake Elmo, MN 55042
651-714-8068
Country Inn
6003 Hudson Road
Woodbury, MN 55125
651-739-7300
1-800-456-4000
Woodwinds recognizes that a person's spirit needs care to help restore health and maintain wellness. During times of illness, injury or significant life events (such as birth or death), it is especially important to attend to spiritual and emotional needs.
Regardless of your faith tradition or culture, Spiritual Care staff - called chaplains - offer assistance by:
Listening
Praying
Offering Sacraments
Facilitating communication
Helping process difficult decisions and ethical concerns
To request a visit from a chaplain
A chaplain is available for personal visits and sacraments. To request a chaplain, ask a nurse for assistance or call the Spiritual Care department at 651-232-0062. On evenings and weekends, call the Woodwind's operator at 651-232-0100.
Chaplains are available 24 hours a day for emergency situations.
Hospital chapel
Our multi-denominational chapel is located near the elevators on the Woodland level. It is always open for prayer and reflection. This sacred environment contains a water element, live plants, stained glass, a candle and music. Bibles, other sacred texts, prayer request cards and Care Notes are available in the chapel area.
Channel 78 in the hospital is available 24 hours a day and contains sacred music and an inside view of the chapel.
Connecting with the faith community
Your pastor, priest, rabbi or spiritual leader is always welcome and encouraged to visit .
If you would like Woodwinds to contact your place of worship or pastor/spiritual leader, please call 651-232-0062 .
Sacraments and sacred rituals
Catholic Mass is celebrated in the hospital chapel on Tuesdays at noon. The service can be viewed in patient rooms on channel 78.
Catholic patients/families are offered the Eucharist daily and Anointing of the Sick upon request.
We encourage Protestant Communion to be brought by the patient's own clergy.
If a patient/family desires a spiritual ceremony from another spiritual tradition, it can be arranged through the Spiritual Care department.
The healing gardens at Woodwinds are a natural extension of the healing environment we’ve created inside the hospital. The gardens and paths are intended to nurture the spirits of all patients, families, physicians and employees.
Thanks to the remarkable generosity of our friends, physicians and employees, we are proud to showcase nature’s grandeur growing in the woodlands that surround our hospital. The gardens were thoughtfully planned to enhance the senses and encourage calming moments, reflection and meditation.
CaringBridge is a free online service to keep friends and family — your caring community — in touch and informed during important life events including medical treatment, childbirth or adoption.
CaringBridge is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, offering free web pages to those receiving care since 1997. It was started after an unbelievable reaction to a Web page created for a premature baby.
CaringBridge has grown steadily since 1997 and as of mid-2007, it has hosted more than 66,000 CaringBridge websites and had nearly 425 million visits and 10 million guestbook messages of hope and encouragement.
The CaringBridge experience is unique for both authors and visitors in its immediacy, intimacy and wide-reaching impact. CaringBridge brings together a global community of care powered by the love of family and friends in an easy, accessible and private way.
Nature of Healing Snoopy
Young and old alike may be thrilled to visit our Nature of Healing Snoopy. Located by the Woods Café, this Peanuts character was one of many statues in the 2002 Peanuts on Parade event in St. Paul. It was brought to Woodwinds by the Woodwinds Circle of Giving in gratitude for the gifts contributed by David and Mary Jo Monson. Feel free to have your photo taken with Snoopy-this is a favorite of families with their newborns.
Dr. Turtle’s Office When young visitors need a place to play, they are invited to visit Dr. Turtle’s Office located by the Woods Café. In Dr. Turtle’s office, they can play in the kitchen, use a stethoscope and even look at x-rays. It is open to children of all ages who are accompanied by an adult and those who are young at heart.
Fireplace
If you have some time and would like to get away for a few minutes without leaving Woodwinds Health Campus, we invite you to relax in our fireplace area. Bring a book, newspaper, laptop computer or just yourself and settle back in the comfortable chairs and tables around the fireplace. This popular spot for visitors is located on the Woodlands level, within easy distance of the Woods Café and our vending area.
Outside Woodwinds Health Campus
Woodbury Village
Woodbury Village is located east of Woodwinds Health Campus and features a variety of stores, including Kohl's and Target. To drive there, turn right onto Woodwinds Drive to Valley Creek Road. Turn right onto Valley Creek Road and turn left into Woodbury Village.
Family and friends play an important role in our patients' recovery, so visitors are welcome. Woodwinds features open visiting hours, but we do ask that you be respectful of our patients' need for rest.
Smoke-Free Campus
Woodwinds is proud to offer a smoke-free environment for our patients, visitors and staff. Smoking is prohibited in the building and on campus grounds. There are designated smoking receptacles across the street.
Wireless Internet Available
Woodwinds provides wireless Internet access so patients, family members or other guests can bring their laptop computers and use the Internet onsite. Stop at any information desk or nursing station to obtain a card with the password to access the Internet.
Please note that Woodwinds cannot guarantee the security of information sent over the wireless network. Also, web sites considered inappropriate will be blocked.
