Joplin, Mo.-based Freeman Health System is planning to build a $168 million hospital in Pittsburg, Kan., according to an Aug. 23 report from NBC affiliate KSN16.
The new facility will be approximately 170,000 square feet and have 50 beds, the report said. An exact location has yet to be finalized, the health system said.
The new Freeman Pittsburg hospital will offer an emergency department, cardiac services, an intensive care unit, maternity, pediatrics and outpatient/inpatient surgery, the system later said in a release shared with Becker's New healthcare workers and technicians will also be recruited, president and CEO Paula Baker said.
Freeman Health is a two-hospital system with 30 locations in its home state, Kansas and Oklahoma.
Updated to include confirmation and details from Freeman Health