By Jay Taylor | InMaricopa
The city’s second hospital will be up and running within two years, according to a spokesman for the developer.
“We’re hoping for Planning & Zoning approval next month and council approval in July,” said Dr. Ed Johnson, a board member of S3 BioTech, the company developing a medical campus at Copper Sky. “The hospital is the first project and our first priority. That will include the hospital, surgery center and medical office building. Construction will take 18-24 months, and the hospital portion is our first priority. We are lining up contractors and will be ready to go as soon as we get our approvals.
“We will certainly break ground this year.”
He said the group is also making progress on the ancillary services it intends to offer.
“We’ve already got signed leases for the outpatient surgical center and behavioral health hospital,” Johnson said. Houston-based Nutex Health Care will run the hospital but said he could not identify at this time the entities that would operate the other two facilities.
