As Catholic Health World went to press, San Francisco-based Dignity Health had planned to break ground Jan. 30 on a $44 million, 24-bed hospital in Glendale, Ariz., a community about 10 miles northwest of Phoenix. The facility will open in early 2014.
The campus will include an emergency department, two operating rooms and diagnostic services; it will have the capacity to expand to 200 beds.
The facility will be non-Catholic. It will follow Dignity Health's Statement of Common Values and will benefit from Dignity Health's Catholic tradition and faith-based mission, according to Dignity Health administrators. The hospital's name was to be announced at the groundbreaking.
Dignity Health now operates three hospitals and an institute in Arizona: Chandler Regional Medical Center, in Chandler; Mercy Gilbert Medical Center in Gilbert; St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix; and Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. Dignity Health leaders said plans call for other health care organizations, which already have established relationships with St. Joseph's, to expand their relationship to the Glendale facility. For instance, partners like Phoenix Children's Hospital and the University of Arizona Cancer Center may have a presence at the new campus.