Since the beginning of the year, Becker's has reported on 10 hospital projects expanding orthopedic services that cost at least $50 million:
Editor's note: Expansions are listed in the order they were reported, beginning with the most recent.
1. Phoenix-based Banner Health plans to develop a $54 million orthopedic sports medicine center in Scottsdale, Ariz. The center, expected to open in late 2022, will include a surgery center and a physical therapy, imaging and a concussion center.
2. Penrose-St. Francis Health Services in Colorado Springs, Colo., plans to begin construction of a $150 million spine and orthopedic hospital. The 72-bed hospital will have 10 operating rooms and include a medical office building and a surgery center. Construction will begin early next year. The facility is expected to open in January 2023.
3. Parkview Medical Center broke ground on a $58 million orthopedic hospital in Pueblo West, Colo., in November. Expected to open in April 2022, the hospital will have 30 beds and free up to 20 beds at the main campus in Pueblo, Colo.
4. In November, Orlando (Fla.) Health Jewett Orthopedic Hospital broke ground on a $250 million orthopedic hospital that will feature 12 large outpatient operating rooms, 66 outpatient exam rooms and up to 75 beds. It is expected to open in 2023.
5. Grand Blanc, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care is injecting an additional $150 million into a health campus that will feature an orthopedic hospital in Lansing, Mich. The cash injection upped the cost of the project to $600 million. McLaren plans to open the hospital late next year.
6. Appleton, Wis.-based ThedaCare broke ground on its $144 million Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Center in August. The facility will feature medical offices, a specialty surgery center and an orthopedic and spine hospital. Construction is set for completion in summer 2022.
7. The $250 million Orthopedic & Spine Tower at Huntsville (Ala.) Hospital is on course to open in summer 2021. The facility will feature 24 operating rooms, 72 patient rooms and house the hospital's program for joint replacement patients.
8. The University of Rochester (N.Y.) is building a $240 million orthopedic campus at the Marketplace Mall in Rochester. The center will feature an ASC with a multistory tower above the operating rooms. It is expected to open in 2023.
9. Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health is developing a 12-operating room orthopedic hospital and two clinics as part of a $209.5 million expansion. Construction will begin next summer, and the hospital's opening is expected by 2023.
10. Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, is building a six-story spine and orthopedic tower that will cost $120 million. The center will treat spine, cranial neurosurgery and complex orthopedic trauma patients and will open by the first quarter of 2022.