Mercy Health Youngstown to build new hospital campus in Warren

St. Joseph Warren Hospital is expanding and getting a new home.

Mercy Health Youngstown plans to build a new, 241-bed hospital and medical office complex next to the Kent State University at Trumbull campus in Warren.

Mercy Health expects to break ground on the more than 400,000-square-foot hospital in early 2023 and open it in late 2025, according to a news release.

Mercy Health will continue to maintain the current St. Joseph Warren Hospital campus at 667 Eastland Ave. SE, and will offer outpatient services in the Medical Office Building. The rest of the site will be turned into green space, the release states.

“For more than a century, Mercy Health has responded to the ever-changing health care needs of the Mahoning Valley through new, enhanced points of care,” Dr. John Luellen, Mercy Health Youngstown and Lorain president, said in the release. “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.”

The new hospital campus will provide full inpatient and outpatient services. A medical office building offering specialist care will be located next to the hospital, the release states.

“As a health care ministry, we are called to bring good help to those in need. Building a new campus for St. Joseph Warren Hospital will enable Mercy Health to do just that by continuing to provide high-quality, compassionate care to the people of the Mahoning Valley,” Char Wray, St. Joseph Warren Hospital president, said in the release. ”We look forward to further developing our footprint in Trumbull County by providing additional access points to the care the community needs.”

In addition to the new hospital campus in Warren, Mercy Health Youngstown announced earlier this month it is partnering with Kindred Rehabilitation Services, a business unit of Tennessee-based health care provider LifePoint Health, to build an acute inpatient rehabilitation hospital in the Mahoning Valley.

Construction of the hospital is expected to begin in early 2023, with an expected opening in fall 2024. Its location has yet to be determined, a Mercy Health spokesperson told Mahoning Matters.