Dignity Health’s plans for a first-ever hospital in Elk Grove, CA, are on hold, with no set timeline to start back up again.
A sign just off a busy stretch of Elk Grove Boulevard marks the spot where a new six-story, 200,000 square-foot, 100-bed facility would be built: the first full-service hospital for a city projected to top 200,000 people by the end of the decade.
Originally set to begin construction this year with a projected 2026 opening, the future for the facility is now uncertain, The Sacramento Bee reports.
“For the past three years, we have been focused on meeting the needs of our community in response to the pandemic and as a result, the timeline for this project has been impacted,” said Phyllis Baltz, president of Dignity’s Methodist Hospital, the south Sacramento hospital that a new Elk Grove campus is intended to eventually replace.
Baltz said Dignity Health and other health networks still grapple with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Similar to health systems across the country, we are in the process of reviewing and reprioritizing all of our major capital projects,” Baltz said. Read more.
