A year after its merger with Tucson-based University of Arizona Health Network, Phoenix-based Banner Health is investing $500 million to build a new hospital and clinic in Tucson, according to the Arizona Daily Star.
The new hospital is being referred to as a replacement for Banner-University Medical Center Tucson, one of the two existing hospitals Banner acquired from UAHN upon the merger. The planned hospital tower will be 670,000 square feet and nine stories. Diamond Children's Medical Center in Tucson and a recent expansion project that included a new emergency department will be incorporated into the new hospital, according to the report.
The new hospital is expected to start seeing patients in the second quarter of 2019.
Banner Health also plans to build a new 200,000-square-foot outpatient clinic adjacent to the University of Arizona Cancer Center's North Campus in Tucson. Banner officials said they expect the new multispecialty clinic to open in 2018.