Encompass Health Corp. wants to build a second rehabilitation hospital in Connecticut. The Birmingham, Alabama-based company filed a certificate of need (CON) application on July 25 with the state Office of Health Strategy seeking approval to build a $69.5 million, 50-bed, for-profit rehab facility on property at 596, 612 & 616 East Main St. According to the 467-page CON application, Encompass Health, doing business as Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Branford LLC, would construct a one-story, 54,765-square-foot facility with 50 beds. The construction price includes “land costs and the associated sitework for the property including, for example, grading costs of approximately $1.35 million, rock allowance of approximately $750,000, allowance for retaining walls of approximately $300,000, and underground detention costs of approximately $900,000.”

Encompass Health seeks state OK to build $69.5M rehab hospital in Branford