Mercy Health officials announced plans on Wednesday to build a new, 241-bed hospital and medical office complex on a 62.88-acre site adjacent to the Kent State University Trumbull Campus.

According to a news release, the facility will be more than 400,000 square feet, and Mercy Health expects to break ground on the facility in early 2023, with an anticipated opening in late 2025.

The current St. Joseph Warren Hospital campus will continue to be maintained by Mercy Health, where outpatient services will be offered in the existing Medical Office Building.

The rest of the site will be redeveloped into green space.

“Given St. Joseph Warren’s current landlocked location and Trumbull County’s growing health care demands, our leadership team identified an opportunity to better serve the community and expand St. Joseph Warren Hospital,” said Mercy Health – Lorain and Youngstown President John Luellen, MD. 

The new hospital campus, which will be the first new hospital construction in the Mahoning Valley since Mercy Health built St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital in 2007, will provide full inpatient and outpatient services and offers an opportunity for future campus expansion, according to the news release.

The facility will also be home to a medical office building located adjacent to the hospital that will offer specialist care.

The project architects are GBBN and Strollo. Thorson Baker and Associates and Heapy are leading engineering. Shook Construction and Turner Construction Company are the construction firms.

The new St. Joseph Warren campus will be located on Educational Highway.

Kent State Trumbull officials say the move will be a great asset for their nursing program.

"This is going to expand opportunities for our students, for internships, for clinicals, but it will also cause us to look at what our program offerings are. Are there other things that Kent State can be offering through this campus that would further help Mercy Health?," said KSU Trumbull dean, Bill Ayres.

In addition to building the new St. Joseph Warren Hospital campus, Mercy Health – Youngstown is also building an inpatient acute rehabilitation hospital as part of a joint venture with Kindred Rehabilitation Services (KRS), a business unit of LifePoint Health, and is renovating the former VA clinic on Belmont Avenue to house a family medicine residency program, new addiction residency program, an obstetrics and gynecology clinic and Centering Pregnancy Program.