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Issue: 1104 Date: 10/20/2011
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Mercy Health planning to expand in Chesterfield, St. Charles County
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Mercy Health plans to build a new hospital and other medical facilities in St. Charles County and a "virtual care center" in Chesterfield.
Mercy announced the projects, part of a larger eight-year investment plan, on Tuesday evening at a presentation before 150 invited guests, including Gov. Jay Nixon, at
the Edward Jones Atrium on Manchester Road.
Mercy president and chief executive Lynn Britton said that plans to build a hospital, a multi specialty clinic and other facilities in the St. Louis area's most rapidly expanding county are still in the early planning stages. The building projects are budgeted for $290million in St. Charles County and $90 million in Chesterfield. The high-tech Chesterfield center would allow doctors and nurses to provide telemedicine services to patients in outlying areas.
Mercy Health, whose assets total about $4.4 billion, operates Mercy Hospital St. Louis in Creve Coeur and 27 other hospitals in four states including Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. It employs about 28,000 people system wide.
Mercy officials view the outlying suburbs as ready markets for expansion. "It's very important to us that we reach out to communities that are not now being served," said Mercy Health board member John Arnold. |
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