FORT SMITH, Ark. — Mercy Hospital Fort Smith recently held a topping-out ceremony for its emergency room and intensive care expansion project, a project whose costs have grown by $24 million.
When Mercy Hospital broke ground on the expansion in February 2022, the four-story, 118,512-SF addition to the hospital was projected to cost $162 million. Now the cost is $186 million.
Supply chain issues, inflation and trouble finding skilled workers — “all those things manifested into the increased overall costs,” Ryan Gehrig, president of Mercy Arkansas, told Arkansas Business. “We didn’t change the scope of the project or anything like that. It’s a difficult time to be doing major expansion projects like this right now.”
To read more about Mercy's expansion, our content partner, Arkansas Business, has the full story here.
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