Intermountain Health Felicia and Ben Horowitz Children's Hospital, Las Vegas, Nevada

Nevada has never had a stand-alone children’s hospital. Families with the sickest kids have been driving to Southern California or flying to Utah for care. Intermountain Health broke ground on Oct. 26, 2026 on the Felicia and Ben Horowitz Children’s Hospital in southwest Las Vegas, an 828,600-square-foot campus that’s due to open in 2030.

The name is new. Three days before the groundbreaking, Intermountain announced a $150 million gift from Felicia Horowitz, president of the Horowitz Family Foundation, and venture capitalist Ben Horowitz. The project had been known as the Nevada Children’s Hospital.

Project Scope

The hospital sits on 33 acres at UNLV’s Harry Reid Research and Technology Park, just northeast of the 215 Beltway at South Durango Drive. It opens with a 180-bed inpatient tower that can grow to 228 beds. Earlier Clark County permit filings described an eight-story hospital with a heliport.

Services cover neonatal care, pediatric and cardiac intensive care, emergency and trauma care, orthopedics, cancer and bone marrow transplant, behavioral health, and advanced medical and surgical care. That’s the full menu of a regional pediatric referral center, not a pediatric wing.

Shepley Bulfinch and Gensler are the architects, a pairing Intermountain announced in January 2025. Shepley Bulfinch brings the pediatric specialty. The firm says it has about four million square feet of pediatric work in its portfolio, while Gensler’s Las Vegas office brings local knowledge. Construction is a joint effort between The PENTA Building Group, a Las Vegas contractor, and Salt Lake City’s Jacobsen Construction, which built Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital in Lehi, Utah. That campus opened in 2024, so the owner is reusing a team that’s done this exact building type for it before.

Why It Matters

David Flood, Intermountain’s chief development officer, put the clinical case plainly at the groundbreaking: complex conditions “don’t travel well.” Every transfer out of state splits families and adds risk. A 180-bed hospital with trauma and transplant capability changes where Nevada’s hardest pediatric cases end up.

For builders, it’s one of the largest healthcare jobs in the Mountain West right now, and Intermountain hasn’t published a construction cost. Construction Review Online put the project above $1 billion, but that figure hasn’t come from the owner. Watch the schedule. A 2030 opening leaves roughly four years for an 828,600-square-foot hospital with a full specialty program, which is tight but doable for a team that’s done it before.

Project Team & Details