WENTZVILLE, Mo. — Mercy, the Chesterfield-based multistate health system, plans to build a new $650 million hospital complex in Wentzville.
The nonprofit health system said Friday that is has filed a letter of intent with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to build the 75-bed hospital. The 483,000-square-foot medical complex, with a projected cost of $650 million, will be located on about 60 acres near the intersection of Interstates 64 and 70, officials said in a press release.
Once the new hospital is approved by regulators, work on the project is expected to take about four years, officials said. Mercy's new hospital will bring construction jobs to the region as well as "hundreds" of new, long-term health care jobs.
“We have grown our Mercy presence in the area over the past decade from three locations to nearly 40, providing adult and pediatric primary and specialty care as well as a critical access hospital in Troy,” Steve Mackin, Mercy president and CEO, said in the release.
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