Maricopa Integrated Health System, also in Phoenix, purchased the hospital campus from Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare for $7.6 million. The health system’s board approved the purchase agreement, along with an additional $52.5 million in renovation costs, Feb. 28.
MIHS officials said they plan to convert the shuttered 250,000-square-foot hospital into a 203-bed behavioral health hospital and emergency department. Officials claimed purchasing and renovating the hospital made more fiscal sense than building a new facility from scratch, the report states.
The new behavioral health facility and ED is expected to open in 2019, according to AZBigMedia.
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