New Celina hospital to address ‘emergency care desert’ From the cover
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Phase 1, which will be complete in 2025, includes emergency services and general surgery. Plans for the hospital include a Phase 2 expansion, which could expand existing Phase 1 offerings including: Emergency room Operating room Lab Pharmacy
The new hospital is expected to treat its first patients in early 2025, Celina Methodist President Cody Hunter said. Its services will include emergency medicine, orthopedics, cardiology and general surgery. OB-GYN services are expected to become available in summer 2025, Hunter said. Before Methodist Celina, patients were sent to Denton, McKinney or Frisco for care, Hunter said. “Celina is an emergency care desert,” he said. Having a hospital nearby as the city continues to grow will support both its residents and visitors, Celina City Manager Robert Ranc said. The city’s population is expected to more than double in size by 2030 from 34,000 residents in 2023 to a projected 97,000 by 2030, according to U.S. Census data.
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The four-story facility will include: $237M project cost 40 acres of land 220-240 hospital employees 50 beds
population included 14% of residents over age 65, according to census data. Approximately 8% of Prosper’s residents were age 65 or older in 2022. “It’s such an asset for any of our older population to be able to have quick and easy access to essential medical services,” Celina Mayor Ryan Tubbs said.
Moon said. The facility is projected to
A hospital opening creates a range of medical-related job opportunities, said Mary Ann Moon, Prosper Economic Devel- opment Corporation executive director. Jobs and positions will also be available at the adminis- trative level, she said. “It’s a huge domino effect on the creation of job opportunities,”
employ 200 people on its first day, and that number will expand as services are added. The new hospital will bring health care closer to Prosper and Celina, which is a key component for seniors moving to the area to retire, Moon said. In 2022, Celina’s
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