[1] The seven-story seven wing structure took eight years to construct and equip, costing the people of Saskatchewan over $13,000,000.

Its opening resulted in a sudden and massive influx of specialists, many of whom held faculty positions with the College of Medicine.

The University Hospital became the primary teaching and training base for the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy, as well as in a number of health care technologies.

In 2010 the hospital renovated and reopened the renamed Cameco Skywalk, a corridor connecting the central atrium to the main entrance in the paid-parking lot which was originally constructed in 1978.

[3] The corridor's grand opening was marred when a patient defecated in the Skywalk on the morning of the event, as witnessed by medical trainees.