Sign says hospital ‘coming soon’ to Maricopa, but plans yet to be submitted
by Joey Chenoweth | Maricopa Monitor
A sign for Exceptional Healthcare says a new community hospital is coming soon to Maricopa. Howard Waggner/PinalCentral
A sign promising a “community hospital” in Maricopa created a lot of buzz among residents on Monday, but city officials say there is still a ways to go before it becomes a reality.
The sign for Exceptional Healthcare Community Hospital popped up at Honeycutt Avenue and State Route 347, just south of the railroad overpass. Exceptional Healthcare is a medical provider based in Texas that provides a 24-hour emergency room along with surgeries and lab work. A Maricopa location would be its first outside of Texas.
However, Nathen Steele, the director of economic and community development for the city of Maricopa, said the developer hasn’t actually followed the correct process in this case. The city likes to have a development and site plan for a project before making public announcements. The city has received no such plans, meaning there are no specifics about how big the building would be or what anything would look like.
