Riverview Health Westfield Hospital
A 16-bed community hospital in Westfield, Indiana, opened in 2018 by the Hamilton County-owned Riverview Health system as that city's first hospital; after pandemic-era losses and a 2023 CEO change, it expanded services through 2025-2026 and entered a managed-services partnership with Parkview
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- Established
- 2018
- Location
- Westfield, Indiana
- Country
- United States
- Opened
- October 23, 2018
- Operator
- Riverview Health, a hospital system owned by Hamilton County, Indiana
- Address
- 17600 Shamrock Blvd, Westfield, IN 46074
- Facility
- 108,000-square-foot, six-story building at U.S. 31 and State Road 32; described as a 16-bed hospital in later reporting
- Emergency and urgent care
- Combined emergency room (24/7) and urgent care (7 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily), described as the area's first combined center
- 2025 expansion
- A 13,630-square-foot primary-care facility at Indiana 32 and Spring Mill Road, expected to open late 2025/early 2026
- 2026 endoscopy center
- An 11,500-square-foot Westfield Endoscopy Center on the hospital's sixth floor
- System partnership
- Managed services agreement with Parkview Health, finalized November 11, 2025; Riverview Health retains independence
Overview
Riverview Health Westfield Hospital is a 16-bed community hospital at 17600 Shamrock Blvd in Westfield, Indiana, operated by Riverview Health, a hospital system owned by Hamilton County (Riverview Health; Indianapolis Business Journal). This is Westfield, Indiana — not New Jersey — and the hospital should not be confused with any similarly named facility in another state. It opened in 2018 as Westfield’s first hospital and has since grown from a phased opening into a full-service community facility, even as its parent system weathered significant financial strain and a change of chief executive.
From county hospital to Westfield
Riverview Health traces its roots to May 10, 1909, when Hamilton County’s first hospital — the Harrell Hospital and Sanatorium, built by Dr. Samuel Harrell and his brother Dr. Madison Harrell — opened in Noblesville, Indiana (Riverview Health). The county purchased it in 1914 and renamed it Hamilton County Hospital; a new building opened on May 12, 1951, was renamed Riverview Hospital in 1952 for its White River location, and became Riverview Health in April 2014 (Riverview Health).
The Westfield project began modestly. In 2015 Riverview Health announced a $34 million outpatient medical facility at the northeast corner of U.S. 31 and State Road 32 (Indianapolis Business Journal). During construction the scope was expanded into an actual hospital — inpatient beds, three surgery suites and an emergency room were added to the 108,000-square-foot, six-story building — making it the first hospital in the city of Westfield (Indianapolis Business Journal; Indianapolis Business Journal). Then-CEO Seth Warren framed the move as serving unmet demand further north in fast-growing Hamilton County, where Westfield’s population had risen 22 percent between 2010 and 2016 (Indianapolis Business Journal).
Opening and early years
The hospital celebrated its opening over two days: a VIP ribbon-cutting on August 30, 2018, attended by the project architect American Structurepoint’s leadership, and a three-hour public open house on August 31 (American Structurepoint). Only the first two floors opened initially — with three operating rooms and four inpatient beds — while three more floors were scheduled to open by year’s end and the sixth floor was held for future growth (American Structurepoint). The hospital’s formal opening followed on October 23, 2018 (Current Publishing).
Its signature feature from the start was the area’s first combined emergency and urgent care center: a single access point where patients are guided to the appropriate level of care — emergency around the clock, urgent care from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily (Riverview Health). By 2023 the hospital marked its fifth anniversary serving Westfield (Indianapolis Business Journal).
Financial strain and a change of leadership
Growth came at a cost. Riverview Health posted operating losses totaling more than $75 million over three years as pandemic-era expenses outran revenue, and the Westfield hospital added tens of millions in debt to the system’s books (Indianapolis Business Journal). Annual debt service stood at about $6 million through 2028, scheduled to rise to about $14 million a year through 2032 (Indianapolis Business Journal).
Seth Warren, president and CEO since 2016, resigned in December 2022 and later took the helm of Meridian Health Services, a Muncie-based mental health and addiction group practice (Indianapolis Business Journal). Dave Hyatt — previously chief operating officer after nearly 15 years with Indiana University Health, including presidencies of rural hospitals — became CEO in March 2023 with a growth-oriented turnaround plan rather than cuts (Indianapolis Business Journal).
Expansion, partnership and a CEO exit
The growth strategy continued into 2024-2026. In June 2024 Hyatt told the Indianapolis Business Journal the system would open a primary-care office across from Meijer at Springmill and State Road 32 in summer 2025, alongside continued growth at the Westfield hospital (Indianapolis Business Journal). A separate May 2025 announcement detailed a 13,630-square-foot primary-care facility at Indiana 32 and Spring Mill Road, developed by Innovcare/Innovative Healthcare Real Estate with Wurster Construction as general contractor, Arc Design, Tesco for civil engineering and GBC Bank financing, expected to open in late 2025 or early 2026 (Current Publishing).
In 2026 the hospital added the Westfield Endoscopy Center on its sixth floor — an 11,500-square-foot digestive-care center led by gastroenterologists Dr. Timothy Imler, Dr. Matthew Bohm and Dr. Sashidhar Sagi, built to cut regional scheduling waits that had stretched to three to six months down to seven to 14 days (Indianapolis Monthly).
Two system-level developments reshaped the picture in late 2025 and 2026. On November 11, 2025, Riverview Health and Fort Wayne-based Parkview Health finalized a managed services agreement to expand service access and improve operational efficiency; Riverview kept its independence, identity and local presence, and Becker’s described the system as comprising the 156-bed Noblesville hospital, the 16-bed Westfield hospital, three combined emergency/urgent care facilities and 10 primary care locations (Becker’s Hospital Review). Then, in reporting dated to late April/early May 2026, Becker’s noted that Hyatt had exited as Riverview Health’s president and CEO to become regional president of the South region at Community Health Network (Becker’s Hospital Review) — the same Community Health Network that is building a $335 million, 100-bed hospital campus in Westfield, about four miles north of Riverview’s hospital, with completion targeted for 2026-2027 (Indianapolis Business Journal).
Services today
The hospital’s current listed services include the Bone & Breast Center, emergency and urgent care, an employer clinic, imaging, an inpatient unit, laboratory, an orthopedics and sports medicine practice, outpatient and inpatient pharmacy, outpatient rehabilitation therapy, and surgery (Riverview Health). A 2023 tour described floors dedicated to surgery, therapy, pain management and breast and bone care, with a robust orthopedic program including joint replacements, while more complex surgeries are routed to the 156-bed Noblesville flagship (Indianapolis Business Journal). The hospital remains listed as open with 24-hour emergency services (Riverview Health).
What this profile does not claim
This profile does not resolve the $50 million versus $55 million construction-cost discrepancy between earlier and later Indianapolis Business Journal reporting; both figures are reported with their dates. It does not document the intermediate steps by which the hospital grew from four inpatient beds at its 2018 opening to the 16-bed figure used in 2023-2025 reporting. It does not state the hospital’s current financial position beyond the 2023 turnaround reporting, does not name a successor to Dave Hyatt, and does not independently verify Riverview Health’s historical or patient-volume claims beyond what the cited sources state. The three Current Publishing articles were verified in the profile’s original research pass and are retained here; they could not be re-fetched during this pass because the domain was blocked at the fetch level, and that limitation is disclosed rather than hidden.
Timeline
- 1909-05-10
- Hamilton County's first hospital, the Harrell Hospital and Sanatorium, opens in Noblesville, Indiana, built by Dr. Samuel Harrell and his brother Dr. Madison Harrell.
- 1914
- Harrell Hospital and Sanatorium is sold to Hamilton County and renamed Hamilton County Hospital.
- 1951-05-12
- A new county hospital building opens west of Noblesville; it is renamed Riverview Hospital in 1952 for its location along the White River.
- 2014-04
- Riverview Hospital is officially renamed Riverview Health.
- 2015
- Riverview Health announces plans for a $34 million outpatient medical facility at the northeast corner of U.S. 31 and State Road 32 in Westfield.
- 2017
- The Westfield project's scope is expanded from an outpatient center into a full hospital with inpatient beds, three surgery suites and an emergency room; construction had started in March.
- 2018-08-30
- A VIP ribbon-cutting ceremony is held for the $50 million hospital, followed by a public open house on August 31; the first two floors open with three operating rooms and four inpatient beds, with three more floors to open by year's end.
- 2018-10-23
- Riverview Health Westfield Hospital opens, with then-CEO Seth Warren discussing the grand opening; the hospital is Westfield's first.
- 2022-12
- Seth Warren, president and CEO since 2016, resigns; he later becomes president and CEO of Meridian Health Services in Muncie.
- 2023-03
- Dave Hyatt, previously chief operating officer after nearly 15 years with Indiana University Health, becomes president and CEO, facing operating losses that IBJ reported as totaling more than $75 million over the prior three years.
- 2023
- The hospital celebrates its fifth anniversary of serving the Westfield community.
- 2025-05
- Riverview Health announces a new primary-care expansion in Westfield, citing the city's rapid population growth; the project involves Innovcare/Innovative Healthcare Real Estate as developer, Wurster Construction as general contractor, Arc Design, Tesco (civil engineering) and GBC Bank (financing).
- 2025-11-11
- Riverview Health and Fort Wayne-based Parkview Health finalize a managed services agreement covering service access, clinical excellence and operational efficiency; Riverview maintains its independence, identity and local presence.
- 2026-04
- Becker's Hospital Review reports that Dave Hyatt has exited as Riverview Health's president and CEO to become regional president of the South region at Community Health Network, the system building a competing $335 million hospital campus in Westfield.
- 2026
- The Westfield Endoscopy Center opens on the hospital's sixth floor, an 11,500-square-foot digestive-care center led by three gastroenterologists, developed in response to regional wait times of three to six months.
What we could not verify
These claims came up in research and could not be confirmed. They are recorded here rather than published as fact or quietly dropped. If you hold a source that settles one, please tell us.
- Published figures for the hospital's construction cost differ: the Indianapolis Business Journal reported $50 million before opening (2017) and the project architect's blog repeated $50 million at the 2018 grand opening, while later IBJ reporting (2023, 2024) states $55 million. This profile reports both figures with their dates rather than choosing one.
- The hospital opened in August-October 2018 with four inpatient beds on its first two floors and is described in 2023-2025 reporting as a 16-bed hospital; the intermediate steps of that bed-count growth were not documented in the sources reviewed.
- The three Current Publishing articles underpinning the October 23, 2018 opening date, the construction-redesign account and the 2025 expansion's named partners could not be re-fetched in this pass (domain-level block); they were verified in the original research pass and are retained on that basis, with IBJ corroboration noted where it exists.
- No successor to Dave Hyatt as Riverview Health president and CEO was identified in the sources reviewed during this pass.
- The hospital's current financial position after the 2023 turnaround plan was not documented in the sources reviewed.
Sources
13 sources (4 tier 1, 6 tier 2, 3 first-party), each opened and read against the claim it supports. Statements the subject makes about itself are marked as such and are not treated as independent evidence. See the source policy.
Ten of the thirteen sources below were fetched and read in full during this research pass. The three Current Publishing (youarecurrent.com) articles were verified in the profile's original September 2026 research pass and are retained here; the domain could not be re-opened during this pass due to a fetch-level block, so those claims rest on the original verification plus corroboration from the Indianapolis Business Journal where it overlaps. First-party sources (riverview.org pages, the project architect's blog) are used only for uncontested facts such as dates, addresses, service lists and institutional history, with independent reporting preferred for evaluative or financial claims.
- Supports: The $50 million project cost, 108,000-square-foot size, U.S. 31 and State Road 32 location, Westfield's first hospital, county ownership, CEO Seth Warren's rationale, and Westfield population growth figures. Open original source
- Supports: The 2015 $34 million outpatient-only plan, the expansion of scope to inpatient beds, three surgery suites and an emergency room, construction start, and the 156-bed Noblesville main campus. Open original source
- Supports: Dave Hyatt becoming CEO in March 2023 after a 14-month COO stint, Seth Warren's December 2022 resignation, operating losses over $75 million across three years, the $55 million Westfield cost figure, debt-service schedule, the 16-bed facility's service lines (orthopedics, surgery, therapy, pain management, breast and bone care, combined ER/urgent care), and the 1951 Noblesville hospital opening. Open original source
- Supports: The 16-bed description, $55 million cost, fifth-anniversary celebration, Hyatt's quotes on growth, new primary-care offices (summer 2024 and summer 2025, including Springmill and State Road 32), Westfield population of 54,605, and Community Health Network's competing $335 million hospital project. Open original source
- Supports: The Riverview Health-Parkview Health managed services agreement, its terms, Riverview's retained independence, and the system's composition (156-bed Noblesville, 16-bed Westfield, three combined ER/urgent care facilities, 10 primary care locations). Open original source
- Supports: Dave Hyatt's exit from Riverview Health and appointment as regional president of the South region at Community Health Network. Open original source
- Supports: The 11,500-square-foot Westfield Endoscopy Center on the hospital's sixth floor, its three gastroenterologists (Drs. Timothy Imler, Matthew Bohm, Sashidhar Sagi), and the reduction in scheduling waits from three to six months to seven to 14 days. Open original source
- Supports: The hospital's October 23, 2018 opening date. Verified in the original research pass; domain not re-fetchable in this pass. Open original source
- Supports: Then-CEO Seth Warren's account of the hospital ahead of its 2018 opening, including the construction redesign from outpatient center to full hospital. Verified in the original research pass; domain not re-fetchable in this pass. Open original source
- Supports: The 2025 primary-care expansion project, its size, location, named partners, and Westfield's 2023 Census Bureau growth ranking. Verified in the original research pass; domain not re-fetchable in this pass. Open original source
- Supports: The August 30, 2018 VIP ribbon-cutting, August 31 public open house, phased opening (first two floors, four inpatient beds, three more floors by year's end), six-story building, and northeast corner of U.S. 31 and SR 32 location. Used only for these project facts. Open original source
- History | Riverview Health First-partySupports: Parent-system history (May 10, 1909 Harrell Hospital and Sanatorium; 1914 county purchase; May 12, 1951 new hospital; 1952 Riverview Hospital renaming; April 2014 Riverview Health renaming) and current system composition. Used only for these institutional facts. Open original source
- Riverview Health Westfield Hospital First-partySupports: Current address (17600 Shamrock Blvd, Westfield, IN 46074), ER and urgent care hours, combined emergency/urgent care description, and the current service list. Used only for these uncontested operational facts. Open original source
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