June 28, 2021 – California Northstate University (CNU) announced plans to have a 13-story teaching hospital built on the site of Sleep Train Arena, the former home of the Sacramento Kings.
The Sacramento Kings, in partnership with the university and the city of Sacramento, last week announced the plan for the hospital/medical center, which will be located on 35 developable acres that were donated to CNU by the Kings. As part of the project, the arena will be demolished.
The university currently occupies 130,000 square feet in Elk Grove, and has more than 1,700 combined students and employees in five colleges, including health sciences, medicine, pharmacy and psychology.
The CNU plans to retain its pharmacy school at its present site, and has submitted an application to the city to expand the Elk Grove campus to accommodate a new dentistry school, according to an Elk Grove city press statement.
The nearly 50-year-old Dignity Health Methodist Hospital of Sacramento, near Cosumnes River College in south Sacramento, will be replaced by Dignity’s future, $320 million hospital on its 28-acre medical campus on Wymark Drive.
Dignity Health plans to break ground on that project in either 2023 or 2024, and open the facility by 2027.