NexCore project solidifies Colorado system’s status as ‘preferred’ provider
By John B. Mugford
Denver-based NexCore Group LLC developed the four-story, 87,822 square foot Montrose Regional Health Ambulatory Care Center at 3330 S. Rio Grande Ave. in Montrose, Colo., for the local health system, Montrose Regional Health. Opening in May 2024, the off-campus facility along the banks of the Uncompahgre River provides Montrose Regional with a “state-of-the-art” outpatient facility with a surgery center that helps bolster the system’s status as the area’s “preferred” health system. In addition to various services provided by Montrose Regional, the facility also houses Cedar Point Health, the area’s largest primary care provider. (Photo courtesy of NexCore Group)
Located at an elevation of more than a mile and offering striking views of the San Juan Mountains and other peaks, Montrose is a scenic western Colorado town in an area known as the Western Slope.
The remote but growing community of slightly more than 20,000 residents along U.S. Highway 50 in the Uncompahgre Valley is the Montrose County seat and the second-largest city in western Colorado after Grand Junction. That makes it an economic and healthcare hub for a vast and mostly rural region stretching all the way to the Utah border, including towns like Telluride, Ridgway and Naturita, in addition to Montrose itself.
In May 2024, the local health system opened a new “state-of-the-art” medical outpatient building (MOB) in Montrose, along the banks of the Uncompahgre River on the south side of town.
For any health system, the opening of such a project would certainly be a cause for celebration, looked upon as a way to expand its ambulatory footprint and to provide patients with new or expanded services in a convenient, one-stop location.
While this was certainly the case for locally based, not-for-profit Montrose Regional Health, the opening of its new four-story, 87,822 square foot, 100 percent leased Montrose Regional Health Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) on a site in a busy commercial area about three miles from its longstanding hospital campus might have meant even more.
That’s because
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