Plans for the Merwick skilled nursing facility at the Princeton Healthcare System’s new hospital will head to the Plainsboro Planning Board on Monday, September 15, for preliminary and final site plan approval.##M:[more]##
Plans for the campus and hospital itself on the 160-acre former FMC site were already approved over the summer, and demolition of the current buildings is already underway.
According to Barry Rabner, president and CEO of Princeton Healthcare System, the hospital has a partnership with Windsor, a skilled nursing provider, which will own the new Merwick facility in partnership with the hospital.
In May, the Plainsboro Township Committee approved an agreement that designates the hospital as the redeveloper of the site and sets the completion date for the hospital component at December 31, 2013, although hospital officials are saying the hospital will be completed by 2011. The project consists of a medical center component, which includes a hospital/medical office portion, a continuing care retirement facility, a general officer research center, the skilled nursing facility, and a public park to be built by the hospital.
The hospital site itself lies on 48 acres, and the other portions of the site, including the continuing care retirement community and the research area, will be built by other developers.
Upon opening, the $441.7 million hospital will consist of approximately 636,”000 square feet, 243 private patient rooms, state-of-the-art emergency services, operating suites and a variety of ambulatory services and laboratories. Subsequent development would provide an additional 324,”000 square feet to be used for more than 100 additional private patient rooms and expanded hospital services and physician offices.
