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On the west side of the Escondido city limits, Palomar Pomerado Health is building the “hospital of the future.” The 50+ acre site is about two miles from the existing Palomar Medical Center, neatly placed to be easily accessible by Escondido and San Marcos residents via either the nearby I-15 or Highway 78. The two-towered, 740,000 sf facility will house full diagnostic services, operating rooms, cardiac catheter and interventional radiation, procedure rooms and space for a future inter-operative MRI, plus a large ED and Trauma Medicine area. On opening day in 2012, Palomar Medical Center West will have 288 single-patient rooms available – 120 in the West tower, and 168 medical-surgical designated beds in the East Tower. Eventually, as demand increases, additional “shelled” floors can be opened within the existing structure, giving the facility 360 beds.