■ HSA PrimeCare broke ground in recent weeks for a 15,000 square foot multi-specialty surgery center at 240 Center Dr. in Vernon Hills, Ill., in the northern Chicago suburbs. John Wilson, president of the Chicago-based healthcare real estate arm of HSA Commercial Real Estate, said the future $10 million ambulatory surgery treatment center is 100 pre-leased to Hawthorn Surgical Associates, a subsidiary of Birmingham, Ala.-based Surgical Care Affiliates LLC. The surgery center practice will relocate to the new facility from its current location in Libertyville, Ill. The outpatient surgery center will feature three surgical suites, one procedure room and 14 recovery stations.
■ Suncoast Medical Clinic, which has five locations in and around St. Petersburg, Fla., and which has an affiliation with St. Anthony’s Hospital, has taken that relationship to a higher level with the completion of a new on-campus outpatient center. That $22 million facility, which recently opened on the campus of St. Anthony’s in St. Petersburg, is the new flagship facility for Suncoast and provides space for 50 physicians offering 27 medical specialties. The building is also home to an urgent care clinic, outpatient lab, imaging, a retail pharmacy and an optical shop. Suncoast physicians have relocated to the new facility from their previous location in south St. Petersburg. The facility was designed by Clearwater, Fla.-based Mason Blau and Associates; it was built by the Orlando office of Barton Malow.
■ McShane Development Co.’s Healthcare Division recently broke ground for the future VA Southeast Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Gilbert, Ariz. The future 60,000 square foot facility is under way on a 9-acre parcel at 3285 S. Val Vista Dr., in the Val Vista Square business park. The design and construction of the clinic is expected to meet U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification standards for healthcare facilities. Services offered will include audiology, radiology, dental care, family support and physical therapy, among others. As part of the development team, McShane selected Dallas-based REES Architecture to design the facility; McShane Construction Co. is the builder. The clinic will replace an existing VA healthcare facility located near the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa. The new facility is slated for completion in the second quarter of 2014; it will provide healthcare services to more than 19,000 veterans in Maricopa County and parts of Pinal and Gila counties.
■ A new 30,000 square foot MOB is under way on the campus of the 150-bed Jordan Hospital in Plymouth, Mass. The building, which will be owned and managed by New Bedford, Mass.-based Whelan Associates, will be home to Jordan OB/GYN & Midwifery, which is consolidating several nearby locations, Jordan Primary Care, and Jordan Specialists. “It’s the right building, the right size and the right location,” a Jordan Hospital representative, Dr. James Fanale, said at the recent groundbreaking ceremony. Another hospital official said the goal of having the MOB built on campus is to help attract and retain more primary care physicians, as the new building will create more of a “hospital campus setting.”
■ Citing a need for updated facilities amid growing demand for outpatient space, officials with Waynesboro (Pa.) Hospital are in the preliminary stages of planning for a new $15 million MOB across the street from its emergency room. Waynesboro is a city of about 11,000 people in south central Pennsylvania. At a recent Waynesboro Borough Council meeting, hospital officials asked the local Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program to be a conduit for a grant of $6.7 million toward construction of the facility. A hospital spokesperson said the hospital’s facilities are aging and their design is not user-friendly. The MOB would be home to primary care physicians, various specialists, and an urgent care/ walk-in clinic. Completion is scheduled for 2015. The hospital is part of Summit Health, which also owns Chambersburg (Pa.) Hospital.
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