PeaceHealth’s Memorial campus was once a hospital. PeaceHealth plans to demolish the building at 3400 Main St., Vancouver, and build a 60,000-square-foot rehabilitation facility in its place. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files)
PeaceHealth is looking to build a 50-bed, inpatient rehabilitation hospital on Main Street, according to pre-planning documents submitted to the city of Vancouver.
The hospital is planned on the 3.17-acre site of PeaceHealth’s old Memorial Health Center, which housed an urgent care center and outpatient behavior health program. (The Memorial Medical Office Building next door will not be affected.) The nonprofit hospital system closed its operations at the failing building last fall.
Demand tops availability
Debra Carnes, senior marketing and communications director with PeaceHealth’s Columbia network, said demand for inpatient rehabilitation beds in the region currently exceeds availability.
“This joint venture between Lifepoint Rehabilitation and PeaceHealth will ensure that rehab patients who must now seek care out of the area will have the ability to receive care locally,” Carnes said.
The old Memorial building at 3400 Main St. is set for demolition, according to the planning documents. PeaceHealth proposes a “state of the art” two-story, roughly 60,000-square-foot building in its place.
“The facility will serve to provide post-acute care in the form of intense rehabilitation therapy for patients who are recovering from musculoskeletal injuries, cardiac and orthopedic procedures, stroke and other brain injuries,” the documents read. “The typical patient will stay for approximately 14 days with the goal to discharge to their home once they are well enough to do so.”
Carnes said PeaceHealth currently plans to open the facility in 2027, pending government approval and an 18- to 24-month construction process.
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