Hospital grows with Summerlin

When planners created Summerlin's master plan nearly 15 years ago, they set out to create a self-contained community that provided all major amenities and services. The five-year-old Summerlin Hospital Medical Center is meeting the community's medical needs by expanding facilities and services to keep pace with the area's continuing growth, according to K.D. Justyn, the hospital's CEO/managing director.

The facility, which opened in 1997, is a 169-bed acute care hospital located in the heart of the community on Town Center Drive near Summerlin Parkway. The hospital is currently adding three stories to its north tower and is expanding several units, including pediatrics, surgical Intensive Care Unit and Intermediate Medical Care, as well as oncology.

"Summerlin Hospital's tower expansion has been carefully planned to incorporate the medical services in highest demand within our community," Justyn said. "Just as the community has a master plan, the hospital has one, too. These additions show that Summerlin Hospital is growing with the community. We are committed to being a partner in our residents' health."

The addition will add more than 100 hospital beds in all-private patient rooms in accordance with the hospital's design. The pediatric expansion will include the creation of a 29-bed designated unit that will continue to provide general and IMC pediatric care. The expansion is planned for completion by the end of 2004.

Summerlin, a development by the Howard Hughes Corp. in the western valley, has been ranked as the nation's best-selling master-planned community nine of the past 10 years. The community is unfolding in villages and is home to two Tournament Players Club golf courses, Jack Nicklaus' Bear's Best course, and five other courses.

Other amenities include nearly 100 neighborhood and village parks, nearly 100 completed miles of trails, 16 schools, houses of worship, shopping centers, medical facilities, cultural facilities, business parks, and nearly 100 model homes.

Houses, townhomes and condominiums are priced from the mid-$100,000s to more than $700,000. Custom lots measuring from one-third to three-quarters of an acre are priced from the $400,000s to more than $1 million, and predesigned custom homes are priced from $500,000 to more than $1 million.

Apartments offer monthly rents starting from the high $700s.

To visit the community's home finding center, travel west on Sahara Avenue, past Hualapai Way, to Town Center Drive. Or, take Interstate 215 to the Sahara exit. The center is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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