Christus Health breaks ground on US $100M hospital in Los Cabos

Christus Health broke crushed Tuesday connected its 2 billion-peso (US $100 million) Christus Muguerza infirmary successful Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, which it expects to beryllium operational successful the archetypal fractional of 2028.

Christus Health is an planetary not-for-profit wellness strategy based successful Texas. Christus Muguerza was established successful Mexico successful 2001 pursuing the merger of Christus Health and Muguerza Hospital, from Monterrey.

“We are thrilled to grow our beingness successful Mexico and supply world-class wellness attraction services to Cabo San Lucas, a portion that attracts astir 4 cardinal visitors a year,” Christus Health president and CEO Ernie Sadau said successful a statement.

“We volition put much than US $100 cardinal successful this hospital, which volition lend to the region’s wellness services with healthcare professionals susceptible of treating highly analyzable cases.”

The 23,671-square-meter infirmary volition initially person 72 beds, 44 aesculapian offices, 4 exigency rooms and 3 operating rooms.

It volition location astir 30 aesculapian specialties including cardiology, oncology, gynecology, exigency care, household medicine, pediatrics and neurosurgery, arsenic good arsenic specialized clinics specified arsenic a bosom clinic. Christus Health expects to employment 250 clinicians, specialists and different unit astatine the facility.

Christus Muguerza Los Cabos volition service the region’s much than 350,000 inhabitants, including 23,000 U.S. citizens who unrecorded successful the area, arsenic good arsenic tourists.

“The diligent and their household are ever astatine the halfway of our attack and our work,” said Horacio Garza Ghio, the CEO of Christus Muguerza. “We supply humanized services, emphasizing compassionate care, seeking not lone carnal wellness but besides affectional and spiritual health.”

The Fernando Romero Enterprise firm, which is led by designer Fernando Romero — son-in-law of Mexican businessman Carlos Slim — designed the hospital.

“In collaboration with the wellness system, successful caller months we person been moving connected the improvement of the layout to guarantee it is the champion infirmary successful the state, with the champion technology, without sacrificing ratio and functionality to supply the champion work to the community,”  Romero said.

The institution plans to incorporated precocious technologies into the hospital, including a virtual adjunct for obstetric nursing, algorithms for post-surgical symptom prediction and control,  and artificial quality for thorax and bosom imaging analysis, according to Christus Health.

With reports from El Financiero