SAN JOSE — Good Samaritan Hospital is embarking on a $1.3 billion project to create an ultramodern medical center at its San Jose campus — a healthcare hub that will be equipped with cutting-edge services for its patients.
The construction project will create a new hospital with 234 rooms that are all expected to be single-patient spaces, according to Good Samaritan Hospital and its owner, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare.
“It’s our largest single investment for any hospital in our company’s history,” said Good Samaritan Hospital Chief Executive Officer Patrick Rohan in an interview with this news organization.
The state-of-the-art facility will have 234 new inpatient rooms once the structure is complete, according to Good Samaritan. The new hospital will connect to an existing and relatively new four-story women’s hospital.
The existing hospital came into operation at a time when shared, semi-private rooms were the industry standard, but all the new rooms will be private spaces.
“We will have a whole new emergency room, a new operating room, and new inpatient treatment rooms,” Rohan said. “We are investing in AI and robotics platforms. We will be able to do more inpatient procedures.”
The new medical center formally breaks ground this Wednesday and should be complete in 2032.
“Our new hospital is being built to meet current demand and the needs of the next five-to-10 years,” Rohan said.
The old hospital will eventually be bulldozed, creating a green open space — and a site where a second tower could be constructed.
“There is enough shelf space on the site to allow us to build a second new tower,” Rohan said. “The number of rooms and beds for the second tower would depend on the building’s configuration and on the future needs of the community.”
The first hospital tower project would add 715,100 square feet of new construction, according to Good Sam Hospital and HCA.
The project is expected to create about 1,550 construction jobs during the course of the development of the new hospital and a nearby parking structure. The new parking garage would create 658 additional parking spaces.
Good Samaritan will also construct a central utility plant that is capable of providing on-site infrastructure to support hospital operations, resilience, and efficiency.
At present, the Good Samaritan campus site has about 300 beds that are in active, daily use, stated a representative for the hospital.
The completion of the new hospital will leave Good Sam with 339 beds throughout its campus after the old hospital is demolished, according to hospital officials.
“I’ve been excited about this project for years,” Rohan said. “This project is one of the big reasons I wanted to come here to Good Sam.” He was named the hospital’s CEO in 2023.
The project comes at a time when a growing number of hospitals in California must meet the seismic requirements mandated by SB 1953, as detailed by the state Health Care Access and Information Department.
“Part of the reason for the new project is definitely the seismic requirement,” Rohan said.
But he said that improvement of patient care in the South Bay is just as important.
“It also is time to bring more innovative care and to create private rooms with the latest and greatest technology,” Rohan said. “HCA believes in, and wants to have, a permanent relationship with the San Jose community.”
