 The four-story building will be developed on more than 4 acres of
Memorial Medical Center's campus at the northeast corner of Dodge
and First streets in Springfield. The site is currently the location
of an employee parking lot.The new building will be constructed
north of Springfield Clinic 1st, a medical office building that was
also built by the health system. Completed in March 2006, the
building is used by more than 100 Springfield Clinic specialists in
orthopedics, rheumatology, neurology, neurological surgery, OB/GYN,
general surgery, colon and rectal surgery, vascular surgery, urology
and cardiology.
A skywalk extending over Dodge Street will connect the two
buildings.
The new construction will include a parking garage that will hold
nearly 600 vehicles. Patients will have walk-in access to
physicians' offices from each level of the garage.
"Memorial Health System is very pleased to join with Springfield
Clinic in the construction of this medical office building to serve
the health care needs of Springfield and the central Illinois
region," said Ed Curtis, president and chief executive officer of
Memorial Health System. "This project further strengthens our
mission to improve the health of the people and communities we
serve."
"Our need for additional space is evident," said Randy Bryant,
chief executive officer at Springfield Clinic. "We've experienced a
67 percent increase in the number of physicians practicing at
Springfield Clinic 1st, and quite frankly, we're busting at the
seams."
Springfield Clinic officials expect the new facility to
accommodate approximately 65 additional physicians, surgeons and
midlevel providers.
"Planning the expansion has allowed us to redesign the delivery
of our services to better meet our patients' health care needs and
significantly improve operational efficiency," Bryant said. "We're
obviously very excited to get construction under way and look
forward to another successful project with Memorial Health System."
Plans for the expanded medical office space include a women's
health center on the first two floors, consolidating Springfield
Clinic's two OB/GYN practices and creating opportunities for other
women's health specialists to provide care in the same location.
The building's third floor will house Springfield Clinic's
general surgery and colon and rectal surgery departments; the fourth
floor will accommodate Springfield Clinic's cancer care center.
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Pending approval from the city of Springfield for a zoning change
from residential to business, construction is expected to be
completed in October 2014.
BSA Life Structures of St. Louis is the architect. Harold O'Shea
Builders of Springfield is the general contractor. The estimated
cost of the project is $60.5 million.
Memorial Health System will begin construction this month on a
medical office building in Jacksonville, which will be constructed
on the Passavant Area Hospital campus and will be occupied by
Springfield Clinic and Memorial Physician Services doctors with
Jacksonville practices.
Based in Springfield, Memorial Health System is a
community-based, not-for-profit corporation that is dedicated to
patient care, education and research. The health system's six
affiliates, including Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln,
provide a full range of inpatient, outpatient, home health, hospice,
behavioral health and primary care physician services. For more
information, visit
GreatHealthStartsHere.com.
Springfield Clinic is a physician-led multi-specialty medical
group with more than 350 physicians and midlevel providers
practicing in nearly 80 medical specialties in locations throughout
the central Illinois region.
[Text from file received from
Memorial
Health System]
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