Moving administrative services such as IT and finances to Ryan Ranch also opens up space closer to the hospital for doctors who need to be nearby, such as OBGYNs.ĭoctors who don’t need to be close to the hospital can own their suites at Ryan Ranch. Aside from being “a little sunnier out there and a little warmer,” Nylen said, “folks who may live in Marina or Salinas enjoy the fact that they’re out at Ryan Ranch because it’s an easier commute.” Montage officials say they will decide the fifth building’s purpose within the next 10 years based on community need.Īccessibility motivated some of the development.

Montage just broke ground on the fourth, which will house the Carol Hatton Breast Care Center, opening in 2020. Three of those are currently built and in use. On Upper Ragsdale, they submitted a master plan for five buildings. Now known as Montage Health, the organization owns almost 50 acres on Upper and Lower Ragsdale Drive for clinical and administrative centers. Their outpatient campus opened in 2004 and includes a sleep disorders center, diabetes and nutrition therapy programs, imaging centers and labs, a community health and hospice resource center, and physician and administrative offices. Aerial views of Ryan Ranch show how the area has been developed. Ryan Ranch offered the most available land in an accessible location, so the organization bought property and began developing in the early 2000s. The landscape has since shifted to accommodate numerous medical centers.Ĭommunity Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, which opened off of Highway 1 between Carmel and Monterey in 1962, wanted to expand beyond its original 22-acre campus to offer more outpatient services. Planners originally envisioned a “light industrial park” focused on manufacturing just off the Salinas-Monterey Highway, just southeast of Highway 218 and west of Laguna Seca.

The 309-acre property originally belonged to the much larger Rancho Saucito until developers broke ground in the early 1980s. MONTEREY - Ryan Ranch, once home to rolling fields filled with cattle and clusters of oak trees, now serves as a local hub for shiny new health care centers.

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