OhioHealth, Columbus’ largest health system, is continuing a period of expansion with major investments designed to transform healthcare across central Ohio and beyond. With more than $1.5 billion in facility investments across the state, OhioHealth is positioning itself to meet the growing needs of the communities it serves.
On March 3, OhioHealth celebrated a milestone with the opening of the first phase of its $400 million construction project at OhioHealth Grant Medical Center. Located directly across from the main hospital entrance on East State Street, the new 33,000-square-foot Grant Family Medicine building features 50 patient rooms, the medical center’s “transition of care” clinic and clinical learning opportunities for 36 family medicine resident physicians.
The full Grant Medical Center renovation, covering 310,000 square feet, is expected to be completed by 2028. Future developments include a new medical office building, a five-story parking garage and a seven-story trauma center housing a state-of-the-art emergency department, new trauma bays, 160 patient rooms and two levels of underground parking. As a Level I trauma center, Grant will continue to care for the region’s most serious emergencies with even greater resources and capacity.
OhioHealth’s $250-million expansion of OhioHealth Dublin Methodist Hospital is now set to open in 2028, two years earlier than originally planned. Located on Hospital Drive, the 200,000-square-foot project includes the construction of a new six-floor building.
Scheduled to open in 2027, the new OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital Women’s Center will offer comprehensive women’s healthcare services across all stages of life, including labor and delivery, OB/GYN services and postpartum care. The $600-million, 555,000-square-foot facility is being built off Olentangy River Road with enough concrete to fill 26 Olympic-sized swimming pools and enough structural steel to build two and a half Boeing 747 airplanes.
OhioHealth is also planning a new $226-million Comprehensive Cancer Center. Construction is expected to begin in 2026 on the 199,000-square-foot facility, which will move cancer care services from the current Bing Cancer Center to the Blom Administrative Campus on OhioHealth Parkway.
Closer to the southeast side of Columbus, OhioHealth is building a $31-million health center in Canal Winchester. Set to open in summer 2025, the 40,000-square-foot facility will house outpatient medical offices and a freestanding 12-bed emergency department. The new center is aimed at increasing access to both primary and emergency care for the growing Canal Winchester area and nearby rural communities.
OhioHealth’s growth isn’t limited to Columbus. The health system is investing heavily in its regional hospitals as well, with renovation projects underway in Mansfield, Circleville, Athens, Marion, and Van Wert.
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