Mercy received a certificate of need from the Missouri Facilities Review Committee for their proposed 75-bed hospital to be constructed northwest of Interstates 70 and 64 in Wentzville.
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Mercy received a certificate of need from the Missouri Facilities Review Committee for their proposed 75-bed hospital to be constructed northwest of the intersection of Interstates 70 and 64 in Wentzville.
The certificate of need from the state allows the healthcare provider to move forward with plans to construct the new hospital.
Before the July 29th announcement, Mercy had met with representatives from Lincoln, St. Charles and Warren Counties about the needs of those communities and the impact that an additional hospital would have on their residents.
During their meeting on Aug. 1, the Warren County Commissioners also discussed what the new hospital would mean for their constituents.
The new hospital will offer a variety of inpatient and outpatient services many of which will soon be much nearer to patients in Warren County.
“It’s just another place for us to go closer for healthcare for our community. We all know how healthcare is nowadays and trying to get to the doctor nowadays, it’s just a challenge, and they’re gonna be a good fit for all of us,” said Presiding Commissioner Joe Gildehaus.
The new hospital will also offer another option for emergency services to Warren County residents, who are often transported to other further hospitals like SSM Health St. Joseph in Lake St. Louis or the Mercy campus in Washington.
Outside of the emergency services, Commissioner Matt Flake also said the increase in available non-emergency services was just as vital.
“The emergency room will be a great thing for the community, but I think the outpatient ambulatory services, the cancer treatments, … Your MRIs, CT scans, you have to go look in a little further in St. Charles County, St. Louis County to get a lot of that, so the rural areas have been in need of that for a long time,” Flake said.
Mercy announced in a press release that they plan to begin construction in the coming months with a date to be announced later and they expect the project to take roughly four years with a completion date some time in 2028.
