A new rehab hospital that planned to open this spring on the city’s west side has requested a six-month extension due to what it called “extenuating circumstances not entirely within” its control that pushed back the project’s expected construction completion date. Encompass Health is building the 40-bed, $39 million facility, the greater Danbury region’s first rehabilitation hospital, on a 13-acre site located in the Reserve, near the New York border. The hospital stated in a Jan. 28 application to the state Office of Health Strategy that the extension of time was needed because the project required “extensive sitework” before construction could begin on the building itself. OHS originally approved Encompass’s Certificate of Need application in April 2023, nearly three years after the hospital submitted its application. Encompass purchased the 13-acre Reserve property in March 2023. The city gave the project a local approval in 2021.
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