CHI Memorial has taken the next step toward making its new hospital in North Georgia a reality.
On Wednesday, leaders with CHI Memorial Hospital told the Georgia Department of Community Health they intend to file their certificate of need – a legal document that is required in order to construct a new health care facility – in December to build a replacement hospital along Battlefield Parkway in Ringgold.
From there a groundbreaking is scheduled to take place for the new hospital, to be known as CHI Memorial Hospital Georgia, in early summer 2022, with a targeted completion date of mid-2024.
The new hospital will replace the health system’s nearly 70-year-old facility on Gross Crescent Circle in Fort Oglethorpe at the site of what was once Hutcheson Medical Center. Hutcheson went bankrupt in 2015 and was taken over by Memorial in 2017 after facing problems with patient volumes and mismanagement.