SAN JOSE — Good Samaritan Hospital is embarking on a $1.3 billion project to create an ultramodern medical center on its San Jose campus, establishing a healthcare hub equipped with cutting-edge services for its patients.
The construction project will feature a new hospital with 234 rooms, all expected to be single-patient spaces, according to Good Samaritan Hospital and its owner, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare.
“It’s our largest single investment for any hospital in our company’s history,” said Good Samaritan Hospital Chief Executive Officer Patrick Rohan in an interview.
The state-of-the-art facility will include 234 new inpatient rooms once completed. The new hospital will connect to an existing, relatively new four-story women’s hospital. While the existing hospital was built when shared, semi-private rooms were standard, all new rooms will be private.
“We will have a whole new emergency room, a new operating room, and new inpatient treatment rooms,” Rohan explained. “We are investing in AI and robotics platforms. We will be able to do more inpatient procedures.”
The new medical center will officially break ground this Wednesday and is expected to be complete by 2032.
“Our new hospital is being built to meet current demand and the needs of the next five to ten years,” Rohan said.
Once the new hospital is operational, the old hospital will be demolished to create a green open space and make room for a potential second tower.
“There is enough shelf space on the site to allow us to build a second new tower,” Rohan noted. “The number of rooms and beds for the second tower would depend on the building’s configuration and on the future needs of the community.”
The first hospital tower project will add 715,100 square feet of new construction, according to Good Samaritan and HCA.
The project is also expected to generate approximately 1,550 construction jobs during the development of the new hospital and an adjacent parking structure. The new parking garage will provide 658 additional parking spaces.
Additionally, Good Samaritan will build a central utility plant capable of supporting hospital operations with enhanced resilience and efficiency.
Currently, the Good Samaritan campus has about 300 beds in active daily use, a hospital representative stated. Upon completion of the new hospital and demolition of the old, the campus will have a total of 339 beds.
“I’ve been excited about this project for years,” Rohan said. “This project is one of the big reasons I wanted to come here to Good Sam.” He was appointed CEO in 2023.
The project comes at a time when many California hospitals must comply with seismic requirements mandated by Senate Bill 1953, overseen by the state Health Care Access and Information Department.
“Part of the reason for the new project is definitely the seismic requirement,” Rohan said. However, he emphasized that improving patient care in the South Bay is equally important.
“It also is time to bring more innovative care and to create private rooms with the latest and greatest technology,” Rohan said. “HCA believes in, and wants to have, a permanent relationship with the San Jose community.”
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