Plans are moving forward for the construction next year of a massive medical office and healthcare facility in El Paso.
The Hospitals of Providence, which opened its first hospital in the city in 1902, now wants to build a $200 million facility on the far east side of the city.
The new hospital and medical office facility will be designed by the Scottsdale-based Devenney Group, which specializes in healthcare building projects.
Earlier this year, the hospital group revealed that it had purchased around 30 acres of land off Eastlake Boulevard in order to build new the facilities.
At the time of that acquisition, the Hospitals of Providence described the $15 million purchase as a part of a “multi-year journey to meet the growing healthcare needs of Far East El Paso and Horizon City.”
As earlier detailed, the project will go up on the not-for-profit healthcare group’s existing campus which has already seen a 2022 facility expansion. That earlier $20 million effort increased capacity from 108 to 218 beds and saw the construction of a new operating room and triage rooms.
One of the largest healthcare systems in the West, and certainly the largest in metro El Paso, the Hospitals of Providence also provides service for residents of southern New Mexico. It has seen significant growth in recent years with the original opening of the East Campus in 2008, its Transmountain Campus in 2017, and a micro hospital in Horizon City, also in 2017.
The El Paso operation is part of a much larger national system that belongs to the Renton, Washington-based Providence Health & Services which was founded by the Sisters of Providence in 1859.
By Garry Boulard
