Scripps Health plans to build a $1.2 billion medical campus that will include a 200- to 250-bed hospital and outpatient facilities.
The San Diego-based health system’s board last week approved the 13-acre development in San Marcos, California. The first phase of the project will feature space for specialty and primary care offices, ambulatory surgery, cancer care, imaging, lab and other services, and the second phase includes the hospital, according to a Monday news release.
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The outpatient center will be built in two to three years, and the hospital will take about six years, a spokesperson estimated.
Scripps purchased land for the development in 1990, but the health system did not have the demand to support the expansion, Chris Van Gorder, president and CEO of Scripps, said in the release.
“Our patient population in the area has since grown to the point that it made sense for us to move forward," he said.
Scripps reported $206.2 million of operating income on $4.91 billion of operating revenue in 2024, up from a $36.6 million operating loss on $4.3 billion of operating revenue in 2023.
