Overview
- Authorities confirmed a March groundbreaking and installed a citizen oversight committee, with investment exceeding 4 billion pesos under the Plan Michoacán por la Paz y la Justicia.
- The hospital is planned on a six-hectare site with 260 censable beds and an estimated workforce of about 2,500.
- IMSS outlined nine operating rooms, 54 specialties and advanced services spanning oncology, cardiology, hemodialysis, imaging and intensive care.
- Within the Plan Michoacán, IMSS reports 41 actions in the state, including strengthening facilities in Uruapan and rehabilitating the hospital in Lázaro Cárdenas.
- Nationally, the government will begin a February–March credentialization to unify access across IMSS, ISSSTE and IMSS-Bienestar, and IMSS plans six additional hospital openings in the next six months adding 1,484 beds.