Why the new $200M Indian Land hospital complex will open later than expected
Indian Land’s new hospital won’t see its first patients until 2028. That’s later than Medical University of South Carolina officials first thought, but not enough to cast doubt on the $200 million project.
Two years ago, the Charleston-based hospital group hoped to open the hospital off U.S. 521 this year. As permitting and construction neared, the revised timeline put a medical office building beside the hospital opening in 2026 and the hospital following in 2027.
The hospital and medical office building sit on more than 80 acres south of Marvin Road.
Now it’ll be early 2027 for the medical office building and early 2028 for the hospital, MUSC Health Catawba Division CEO Scott Broome said Friday afternoon. That “may be a slight delay,” he said, but it’s close to the timeline the healthcare group has had for the past year.
Construction on the medical office building should wrap up late next year, but staffing and furnishing it puts the opening estimate into 2027. Likewise, Broome expects construction on the hospital to be done by mid-fall 2027.
“With a hospital, installation of significant pieces of equipment and things like that, (the question is) how long from certificate of occupancy to first patient?” he said. “That’s where we think it may be early 2028.”
Indian Land hospital, healthcare plans
The 60,000-square-foot, three-story medical office building will have a cancer center on the ground floor. It’ll have radiation services at the top. And it’ll offer a variety of medical services meant to support the hospital.
The main hospital will be five stories, and 150,000 square feet. It’ll have 54 beds, plus intensive care and maternity units.
There’s a 24-bed emergency room and a retail pharmacy. Advanced cardiac care, cancer services and transplants will set the Indian Land facility apart from smaller hospitals within a short drive of it, Broome said.
Until recently, hospitals and major medical services in South Carolina couldn’t be added without a state-approved Certificate of Need. Now that’s not a requirement, so plans for hospital facilities and services could change quickly.
“We’ll build it in such a manner that it can expand quickly,” Broome said.
The new Indian Land hospital will add to other Catawba Division sites for MUSC Health like Lancaster Medical Center and Chester Medical Center.
