Vancouver, Wash., and its surrounding area will gain 36 rehabilitation beds following state approval of a plan by PeaceHealth and LifePoint Rehabilitation to build a 50-bed hospital at 3400 Main St., in Vancouver.
PeaceHealth Memorial Urgent Care, which currently occupies the site, will be torn down and replaced by the new hospital, which the partners hope to open by mid-2027.
When the 67,000-square-foot hospital is completed, PeaceHealth Southwest will shift 14 existing beds to the new facility.
Though the project is a joint venture between PeaceHealth and LifePoint Rehabilitation, a unit of privately owned LifePoint Health, the health system will be the majority owner, according to a press release.
PeaceHealth and LifePoint Health also have partnered to build a 42-bed rehabilitation hospital in Springfield, Ore. Construction is under way on that project, which the partners say will open next year.
“Receiving regulatory approval for this project is further confirmation of the community need for increased access to specialized rehabilitation care,” said David Stark, LifePoint Rehabilitation’s chief operating officer, in a prepared statement. “This facility will enable us to care for more medically complex rehabilitation patients and serve patients in a facility wholly dedicated to their recovery.”
The new hospital will provide intensive nursing, physical, occupational and speech pathology services for adults recovering from conditions such as stroke, neurological disease, brain or spinal cord injury, and other debilitating illnesses or injuries, according to the announcement. LifePoint Rehabilitation will manage day-to-day operations of the facility.
Vancouver-based PeaceHealth is a not-for-profit Catholic health system that operates in Washington, Oregon and Alaska. Tennessee-based Lifepoint Health was acquired in 2018 by Apollo Global Management, a private equity firm.
