Plans are solidifying quickly for a 60,000-square-foot medical facility and urgent care center to be built by Mary Rutan Hospital on 11.5 acres of land acquired in 2015 near the intersection of Route 33 and 68 North. The site was formerly home to the Holiday Inn, which was torn down in 2014.
“We heard our community’s expressed need for local urgent care services as an alternative to emergency medical care, and we are responding with this new facility, the Mary Rutan Hospital Health Center,” said Mandy Goble, president and CEO of Mary Rutan Hospital. “In addition to urgent care services, the new health center will provide convenient access to other needed health care services.”
The new urgent care center will offer evening and weekend hours for treatment of minor illnesses and injuries that do not justify an emergency room visit.
Other services that will be available at the medical complex include a laboratory, physician clinic, imaging, Corporate Health Services, chronic care clinics and wellness services. The facility will provide community members much more convenient access for popular services now available only in the main hospital, such as weight loss programs and Coumadin and diabetes clinics.
Architects from DesignGroup of Columbus are drawing up plans, Chad Ross, MRH vice president of operations, said. He expects dirt to be moved and construction to begin by late this year or early 2017.
Ross said that the Mary Rutan Hospital Health Center will be part of a development called Northpoint Center. “The site has the potential to support retail development. Mary Rutan Hospital will be working closely with the Chamber of Commerce and local leaders with the hope that additional retail establishments will be a part of the site development.”