St. John's Hospital Maplewood Visitor & Records Guide

Beam Avenue Medical Corridor

A 184-Bed Hospital in the Middle of Maplewood

M Health Fairview St. John's Hospital is a 184-bed acute-care hospital on Beam Avenue in Maplewood, Minnesota. It operates a 24/7 emergency department along with imaging, intensive care, and 24-hour in-house obstetrics coverage. The hospital sits 0.7 miles from our Saint Paul office on County Road D and 1.2 miles from our Maplewood office, on the Beam Avenue corridor just south of Interstate 694.

Crash victims and their families use St. John's for emergency treatment, follow-up imaging, and the certified medical-records requests that support an injury claim. M Health Fairview manages it, formerly HealthEast St. John's.

Finding Your Way

Getting In: Entrances and Parking

The main entrance at 1575 Beam Avenue is open from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. daily. Outside those hours, come in through the Emergency Department instead — it runs 24/7 at the southwest corner of the hospital and is reached from Hazelwood Street. Either way, visitors sign in and receive a badge.

Parking is simple. Visitor parking is free, and complimentary valet runs at the main entrance Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Entrances and hours are set by the hospital and can change, so check its directions page before you drive in.

Supporting a Patient

Visiting Basics

Visiting policies depend on the unit and can change, so confirm current rules with the hospital before you arrive. St. John's has an ICU and a NICU on site, and intensive-care floors usually run tighter rules than general ones. Bring photo ID, travel light, and write down what the care team tells you — names, dates, and next steps blur fast in a hard week.

Our trauma intake checklist for families lists what to ask, what to record, and what to keep. We wrote it for another hospital, but the questions travel to any bedside.

The Paper Trail

Medical Records and Your Injury Claim

Under Minnesota health-records law, you or your legal representative can inspect your records, get copies, and have them sent to another person or facility. Everything generated at St. John's — emergency department notes, imaging, operative reports, discharge instructions, itemized bills — documents your injuries in medical language an insurer has to take seriously.

You don't have to chase that paperwork alone. With your signed authorization, we request certified records as part of building your case. A complete record doesn't decide a claim by itself, but no claim stands without one.

The Legal Side

Why This Matters After a Crash

St. John's anchors the Beam Avenue medical corridor, 1.4 miles from the Highway 36 and Highway 61 interchange. When a collision puts someone here, the same building usually holds the whole medical story: emergency treatment, follow-up imaging, and the records that tie the injuries to the crash. Knowing where to enter, how visiting runs, and how records move keeps a family functioning while the patient heals.

Not every injury needs an emergency room. For urgent but non-emergency care after a wreck, our walk-in care guide for The Urgency Room in Vadnais Heights covers a nearby option.

Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions