St. Luke’s breaks ground on Spring rehab center near Grand Parkway

Spring families who now face long drives for intensive recovery care will get a new option near the Grand Parkway as St. Luke’s Health and Lifepoint Rehabilitation move ahead with a 58,000-square-foot inpatient rehabilitation hospital on the campus of St. Luke’s Health-Springwoods Village Hospital.

The project broke ground June 2 in City Place and is designed with 40 private rooms for adults recovering from strokes, neurological disease, and brain and spinal cord injuries. The center will also serve patients with other debilitating illnesses or injuries who need the kind of therapy and nursing support that can shape whether someone returns home with greater independence or spends weeks farther from home in a more fragmented care setting.

Inside the new facility, patients will have access to multidisciplinary therapy gymnasiums, an activities-of-daily-living suite, and outdoor courtyards meant to help them practice walking, reaching, dressing, and other everyday tasks in a setting that reflects real life more closely than a standard hospital room. The project is aimed at intensive nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech pathology services, all of which are often hard to piece together quickly when post-hospital rehab beds are tight across Greater Houston.

That matters in north Harris County, where growth in Spring, The Woodlands corridor, and nearby communities has outpaced many service systems. A dedicated rehabilitation campus close to home can shorten travel times for families balancing work, child care, and repeated therapy visits, while also easing pressure on patients who are medically ready to leave an acute-care hospital but still need a higher level of support before going home.

St. Luke’s President Jim Parisi said the partnership is meant to bring inpatient rehabilitation to a rapidly growing part of Greater Houston, while Lifepoint Rehabilitation President Russ Bailey said the goal is to help patients return to their lives, families and communities as functionally as possible. Lifepoint will manage day-to-day operations once the hospital opens, which is expected in summer 2027.

CommonSpirit Health said the project fits St. Luke’s larger strategy of delivering whole-person care close to home through an integrated network of clinics, acute-care sites and post-acute facilities. St. Luke’s Health operates eight inpatient hospitals in Greater Houston, with more than 1,400 licensed beds and 11,000 employees and clinically aligned providers.

The Springwoods Village campus opened in 2016. Anchor Health Properties is the developer, Earl Swensson Associates is the architect, and Robins & Morton is the general contractor for what will become another specialized care destination in north Harris County.