Another hospital is expanding in Johnson County, with $70 million for two new sites

Construction will begin this month on a nearly $70 million expansion of Olathe Health, with an Overland Park location and a new medical campus, a “one-stop-shop” for everything from primary to urgent care, the hospital announced Thursday.

The project will expand the health system’s footprint with construction at two locations:

▪ Two new outpatient centers — Omni Outpatient Surgery and Olathe Health Multispecialty Center — will be built inside the Landmark National Bank building near the busy intersection of U.S. 69 and 135th Street in Overland Park. It’s expected to be open next spring.

▪ A second, larger project, at the northwest corner of 151st Street and Quivira Road — in Olathe but bordering Overland Park — will be a new medical campus housing primary, urgent and specialty care and surgery services. Earthwork and excavation there was scheduled for Thursday to begin preparing the area for construction.

The announcement comes as AdventHealth Shawnee Mission began construction in Johnson County last month on a $76.5 million cancer center that will allow it to double the number of patients it serves by 2030.

The Olathe Health expansion will add services that meet a growing demand for more specialty care and outpatient services in the area, officials said.

The new outpatient surgery center will be Olathe Health’s first off-campus ambulatory surgery center, the hospital’s announcement said. It will occupy about 15,000 square feet on the second floor of the bank building as a joint venture between the health system and physicians.

It’s designed as “a viable alternative to hospital-based care,” the health system’s CEO and president Stan Holm said in a statement.

“We already serve people from Overland Park and its surrounding areas,” he said. “This expansion will bring extended surgical and specialty service access to an active area of Overland Park.”

The 5,000-square-foot clinic, going in on the first floor of the bank, will house offices for various Olathe Health specialists, hospital officials said.

The new, two-story campus at 151st and Quivira, more than 60,000 square feet, will be home to the health system’s first freestanding imaging center and will also house a second ambulatory surgery center.

It will offer primary and urgent care services, lab and rehabilitation services and specialty care clinics.

Holm called the new Quivira campus a “one-stop-shop experience,” an answer to growing patient demand “for improved access and better experiences,” which has led to more services moved into outpatient settings.

Olathe Health operates two hospitals, Olathe Medical Center and Miami County Medical Center, and more than 60 primary care and specialty care locations in several counties in the region.

Construction on the new campus is expected to finish in December 2023, hospital officials said.

Meanwhile, the AdventHealth Cancer Center Shawnee Mission near 75th Street and Interstate 35, on the hospital system’s main campus in Merriam, will be dedicated solely to cancer care.

It will replace AdventHealth’s current cancer center in a medical office building at 9301 W. 74th St. and is scheduled to open in the spring of 2024.