Centennial Hills Hospital adding 36 rooms

By Jackie Valley

Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015 | 12:56 p.m.

Centennial Hills Hospital will build out its fourth floor, adding 36 inpatient beds as part of a $9.7 million project. The hospital will have 226 total inpatient beds when the expansion is completed later next year.

The transformation of the empty space on the fourth floor will lead to 20 private medical/surgical rooms and 16 intermediate medical care rooms in response to increasing demand for inpatient care, said Sajit Pullarkat, CEO and managing director of Centennial Hills Hospital. More parking and a new elevator will be added, too.

The fourth-floor transformation is the latest in a string of projects at the northwest valley hospital, which opened in 2008.

The hospital recently added four labor and delivery rooms and a nine-bed, Level III neonatal intensive care unit for medically fragile infants. Two additional surgical suites will be completed by the end of the year.

“These projects represent about a $15 million investment to grow and support our local community needs since 2014,” Pullarkat said in a statement.

Centennial Hills Hospital is part of the Valley Health System, which is also building a four-story patient care tower at Spring Valley Hospital and the new 142-bed Henderson Hospital at the corner of Gibson Road and Galleria Drive.

In August, MountainView Hospital, which is a member of the Sunrise Health System, announced a $90 million expansion project that will add 64 hospital beds, a Level III neonatal intensive care unit and expand women’s services and the emergency department. An 80,000-square-foot medical office building will be built on 8.2 acres next to the hospital.