(The Center Square) — Intermountain Health has revealed its construction partners for Nevada’s first stand-alone children’s hospital and given a timeline for the project.
Construction companies PENTA Building Group and Jacobsen Construction were tapped for the project at the barren site southwest of Las Vegas in Spring Valley. Groundbreaking is expected to begin in 2026, with the hospital not expected to open until 2030.
“This is the first step toward our partnership with our community to bring this long-needed, stand-alone children’s hospital to Las Vegas,” said Mitch Cloward, president of Intermountain Health’s Desert Region, in an October press release announcing the site.
Intermountain Health explained PENTA was picked for the project for its familiarity with Las Vegas and the surrounding region. Last year the company helped move the famous Mirage casino archway to the Neon Museum, and PENTA has done a number of projects on the Strip and in the greater Las Vegas area.
Jacobsen Construction is a larger company based in Salt Lake City that worked on Intermountain Health’s children’s hospital in Lehi, Utah last year.
“It was vital for us in the contractor selection to bring both ingenuity and craftsmanship along with the aspect of homegrown Nevada connections,” said Lawrence Barnard, president of the Intermountain Health Nevada Children’s Hospital, in a press release. “The Nevada Children’s Hospital is poised to be state-of-art, welcoming families close to home with the compassionate service for which Intermountain is known.”
The companies said the hospital will mean Nevadan families would no longer have to travel out of the state for many types of specialized children’s care, such as oncology and cardiovascular issues.
“As a local Las Vegas contractor, we see this as more than just another construction project; it’s an opportunity to be part of something amazing that is going to make Southern Nevada a better place for our families and friends,” said PENTA President and CEO John Cannito in a press release.
Jacobsen Construction, which has worked on projects with Intermountain Health across the years, called the Las Vegas area children’s hospital a “truly once-in-a-generation project.”
The 200-bed children’s hospital will be built on 34 acres of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Research and Technology Park’s 122 acres. Intermountain Health currently operates 80 clinics across Southern Nevada, serving roughly 350,000 Nevadans.
