The key objective of the project is to provide the new hospital, family centre and health and wellbeing centre with functional and efficient facilities that support patient and client work. The new Malmi Hospital will be a rehabilitation-promoting hospital, designed with special attention to how the environment can support the recovery and rehabilitation of patients. Clients and patients will be supported in their orientation and moving about in the facilities through the use of various signage elements and safe material choices. Attention will also be paid to the pleasantness of the premises and natural lighting.
Bringing functions together in the Malmi Hospital area will facilitate synergic benefits in terms of operations, employees and the facilities alike. This will also lay a good foundation for the development of operations.
The Social Services, Health Care and Rescue Services Committee approved the needs assessment for the project in October 2025. Project planning is expected to start in early 2026. The Helsinki City Council is expected to decide on the project plan and approving the realisation of the project in the autumn of 2027.
The project in brief
The new Malmi Hospital will be a rehabilitation-promoting hospital that focuses particularly on patients in need of acute geriatric and surgical follow-up treatment. A therapy centre that will promote a wide range of rehabilitation activities, including rehabilitation robotics, is being planned for the hospital. Technology will also be used for the follow-up rehabilitation of patients who have already been discharged. There will be around 200 new beds at the hospital. Potential future expansions will also be taken into account in the planning of the hospital area.
Construction will take place in phases. The current hospital, including the HUS emergency department and laboratories, will continue to operate normally throughout the construction project. Malmi Health Station will also continue its operations until the new replacement facilities are completed. The family centre and health and wellbeing centre will have their premises in the same building as the new hospital.
Services in brief
The new hospital, family centre and health and wellbeing centre in Malmi will form a complex providing diverse services in the current Malmi Hospital area. The family centre and health and wellbeing centre will house health station, maternity and child health clinic and oral health care services transferred from Malmi, Pihlajamäki, Puistola and Suutarila. Services from the current office building, business building and psychiatric and substance abuse centre in Malmi will also move to the new building. Jakomäki Health Station will also be covered by the Malmi family centre and the health and wellbeing centre. A local service point for the centre is being planned for Jakomäki. More detailed plans for the local service point and its services are still under development.
Detailed plan amendment
The project will require an amendment to the local detailed plan. The plan amendment will expand the current hospital plot, increase the permitted building volume and make traffic arrangements. The plan is to demolish the health station, school and telecommunications operator facilities currently located in the area and move these functions to unoccupied plots. All the services of the existing health station units will continue in their current premises until the new facilities are completed in phases. The school and the telecommunications operator will have new premises in the surrounding area.
The new facilities will be based on the winning design of an architecture competition
In 2023–2024, the City of Helsinki held an architecture competition for the design of the new building. The architecture competition was held as a two-stage invitational competition. The main objective of the competition was to design a rehabilitation-promoting hospital with a focus on solutions that promote patient recovery and durable premises that will serve changing operational needs as well as possible.
The winner of the competition was the duo of Arkkitehtiryhmä Reino Koivula Oy and Harris Kjisik Arkkitehdit Oy with their proposal Puutarhat (‘Gardens’). The planning and design work will continue on the basis of the winning proposal.
Construction
The aim is to start construction in autumn 2028. The building is expected to be completed and operations in the new premises to start in 2035. The schedules are preliminary and may change during the course of the project.