A new hospital will soon open in Derby, which has become an emerging market for health care in the past few years.
The $40 million, 31-bed Rock Regional Hospital, which staff began occupying in February, is still awaiting state inspections and clearance by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to start accepting patients, according to hospital CEO Jason Eitutis.
Located across from Derby North Middle School and just north of Field Station: Dinosaurs, the hospital is part of a new 15-acre medical campus at 3251 N. Rock Road being developed by CBC Real Estate Group from Kansas City, Mo.
Rock Medical Assets — made up of the developers, local investors and private capital firms — owns the for-profit hospital as well as an ambulatory center it bought from Derby Family Medicine in 2018. Ascension Via Christi became a 25% owner in the hospital when it signed an agreement in late October with Rock Medical Assets.
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