Methodist Healthcare Wins CON Approval for $280M Modernization Project

The Tennessee Health Services and Development Agency approved the Certificate of Need filed by Methodist Healthcare to modernize Methodist University Hospital, the healthcare system’s flagship hospital. Today, the high priority services offered at MUH are spread across the campus, which spans six blocks. The modernization project will restructure the campus and centralize clinical services, creating a patient- and family centered care environment that is easily accessible and easy to navigate.

• Transplant services spread across the hospital will be consolidated on two floors in the tower
• West Cancer Center’s Union Avenue clinic will be consolidated in the tower with hospital-based inpatient and surgical services creating one comprehensive cancer center
• Outpatient care will be consolidated in the new tower, making these services easily accessible from the parking plaza that will connect directly to the tower

The $280-million plan will add 440,000 square feet to the hospital’s campus and will remove 240,000 square feet with the demolition of the Crews Building. A new nine-story tower will be constructed above the emergency department extending above and over Eastmoreland. Methodist will also invest in state-of-the-art equipment, elevating healthcare with the most advanced technology available.

The contractor on the project is Turner Construction and HKS is the architectural firm.

Construction is expected to begin in January 2017 and be completed in the spring of 2019.