The hospital, which would open in January 2023, will be the first building on the 57.8-acre site the health care giant bought last year for $30 million and will focus on orthopedic and spinal care to serve fast-growing northern Colorado Springs and northern El Paso County, Penrose-St. Francis CEO Dr. Brian Erling said. The site would also include a medical office building and surgery center built by a group of orthopedic specialists, he said.
Penrose-St. Francis also operates St. Francis Medical Center at 6001 E. Woodmen Road and Penrose Hospital at 2222 N. Nevada Ave.
“We are incredibly excited to break ground on this project as it will extend our healing ministry to the rapidly growing communities to the north and northeast of our city, and create additional capacity for services at Penrose Hospital, Erling said. The COVID-19 outbreak necessitated a brief pause on the work, but we are now moving forward quickly with a goal of treating our first patient on the site by January
Centura Health broke ground Monday on the newest part of its continuing expansion in Colorado Springs a 72-bed hospital named for St. Clare of Assisi, founder of the Catholic religious order of nuns.
The $160 million St. Clare Hospital is scheduled to open in March 2023 southeast of Interstate 25 and InterQuest Parkway to serve the fast-growing neighborhoods of northern Colorado Springs and northern El Paso County. The four-story, 140,000-square-foot hospital will specialize in orthopedic and spine care and will employ about 400 people, said Dr. Brian Erling, CEO of Penrose-St. Francis Health Services, the Centura unit that will operate St. Clare Hospital. It is rare to start a new hospital, and rarer still to do it after surviving a pandemic, said Rene Campagna, Centura s group vice president of mission integration. The new hospital, she said, will continue the legacy of the two religious orders that started with the opening of St. Francis Hospital in 1887 by the Sisters of St.
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