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The facility, which will be betweenm 85,000 and 89,000 square feet, will include orthopedic surgeon and neurosurgeohn offices and an outpatient centerfor physical, occupational and hand therapt and sports medicine. An open MRI also will be available at the which will be located on FrankScott Parkway. Mark Turner, Memorial’s president and chief said the hospital wanted to expandf its orthopedic and neurosciences lines but was out of The two existing medical office buildingson Memorial’ss campus, which are both smaller than the proposecd addition will be fully leasesd by the end of the year.
Pending stat e approval, Memorial plans to break groundc at the end of the year with completiom slated for the summerof 2011. Memorial, a 313-bef hospital, reported $239.8 million in 2008 is the architect for the new and is thegenerap contractor. The hospital currently has six orthopedicc surgeons andthree neurosurgeons, including Dr. Steven Morton, an orthopedic surgeon who joinedApril 1. With the new the hospital hopes to add two to thre more orthopedic surgeons over the nextthree years, Turnere said. In addition, relocating orthopedic and neuroscience services from their current locations will free up space for expansiojn inother areas.
Memorial is still evaluating financing but Turner said the hospital is confidentg about its ability to move forward with the projecr despite the currenteconomic slowdown, whicg has put many hospital projectsz nationwide on hold. For St. Louis-based cited economic conditions for the dela of construction on three new hospital it had planned forJeffersob City, Mount Vernon, Ill., and Wis. “Like everyone, we are concernedd about the economy and will continue tomonitort that, but we don’t anticipate having any significanr issues in securing financing,” Turner said. Memorialk is currently in the midstr ofa $4.4 million renovation and expansiojn of its emergency department.
The two-year project is on trackl to be completed bylate fall.
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