At a planned cost of $450 million, the five-story hospital will feature 166 beds, a 24/7 emergency department, a neonatal intensive care unit, a labor and delivery unit, advanced technology, and operating rooms, according to a University Health press release shared with Becker’s.
The health system also broke ground on a multispecialty healthcare center and its University Health Institute for Public Health in December.
University Health will break ground on the second hospital, the Selma, Texas-based University Health Retama Hospital, in its two-hospital project next month, a spokesperson for University Health said in a statement shared with Becker’s.
The University Health Palo Alto Hospital is expected to open some time in 2027, the release said.
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