Presbyterian will create a healthcare system for west side patients and members that is safe, patient-centered,operationally efficient and flexible, environmentally friendly and technologically innovative. Presbyterian has spent more than a year researching, reading, going to other state-of-the-art hospitals and planning to provide New Mexicans with a healthcare delivery system that will meet their needs today and in the future.

Hospitals are complex facilities to build with special considerations given to medical gas lines, safety for patients and visitors and many other factors. The average hospital takes two to three years to build. Presbyterian has broken ground for the new hospital and medical center in the summer of 2008 with completion targeted for the fall of 2010.

The 21st Century Hospital

* 66 acres east of Unser Blvd. & north of Black Arroyo Blvd.
* 120 private patient rooms in 340,000 square feet of hospital space.
* Full-service emergency department with helicopter pad.
* Medical office building with four floors providing more than 110,000 square feet of medical services.
*More than 140 physicans and 500 plus employees.