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Memorial to erect $60 million medicine building

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The Memorial Health System house on Wednesday authorized construction of a four-story, $60 million medical bureau building along North First Street.

The structure, to be used exclusively by Springfield Clinic physicians, would give some-more sanatorium doctors and patients entrance to Memorial Medical Center, assistance a sanatorium enhance and emanate new areas for women’s health and cancer-treatment services.

“This building allows us to continue to grow in Springfield,” Don Waldrop, arch handling officer of Springfield Clinic, told The State Journal-Register. “The earthy structure will concede us to urge a coordination of care.”

The as-yet-unnamed outpatient-care building would be assembled immediately north of Memorial’s Springfield Clinic 1st building, 800 N. First St. The 5.85-acre site now is empty land and parking areas already owned by Memorial.

The building will embody an enclosed walking mezzanine opposite Dodge Street to bond a new building with a 1st building. The devise also is to embody a parking ramp with 590 spaces.

The Springfield Clinic 1st building, that covers 118,000 block feet, was finished in 2006. That building is full, Waldrop said. The new building would sum 132,000 block feet.

Scaled back

Memorial officials wish to mangle belligerent on a devise this spring, though initial need a zoning change and variances from a Springfield City Council. The site now has a reduction of bureau and residential zoning, that needs to be altered so a whole site is zoned for offices, according to Joe Gooden, Springfield zoning administrator.

The Springfield Planning and Zoning Commission is scheduled to make a recommendation on a changes Mar 21. The city legislature is approaching to opinion on a devise Apr 17.

Kevin England, a health system’s clamp boss for business development, pronounced a devise is partial of a incomparable Memorial construction devise that health complement officials have “significantly scaled back,” in partial since of uncertainty about either tyrannise trade eventually will be moved off a Third Street mezzanine easterly of Memorial.

He wouldn’t exhibit sum of a incomparable devise solely to contend that it would have been in a area of a Third Street tracks. Memorial favors consolidating rail trade along a 10th Street corridor, England said.

Springfield Clinic could sinecure during slightest 70 some-more doctors and during slightest 100 some-more nurses and other support staff since of a new outpatient diagnosis space, Waldrop said.

The clinic, that employs 240 doctors and 100 helper practitioners and medicine assistants, has combined about 45 doctors in any of a past dual years. It continues to grow in partial since smaller medicine groups in a village have assimilated a sanatorium and since direct for specialized medical caring in Springfield is increasing, Waldrop said.

The devise would emanate about 1,700 construction jobs, he said.

Space needed

Springfield Clinic would pierce a chemotherapy infusion services and medical oncologists from a categorical campus during 1025 S. Sixth St. to a new building’s fourth floor. The new plcae will be designed to use healthy light and be some-more relaxing for patients undergoing chemotherapy, Waldrop said.

“We don’t have a space right now to yield a ideal recovering sourroundings that we would like to,” he said.

General-surgery and colorectal surgeons would be formed on a new building’s third floor, relocating from a Springfield Clinic 1st building.

The initial and second floors of a new building would essentially be clinging to women’s health. Obstetricians-gynecologists would pierce to those floors from a 1st building and a Springfield Clinic SOGA building during 350 W. Carpenter St.

Other specialists — including endocrinologists, cosmetic surgeons and dermatologists –- infrequently would use a initial dual floors to see patients, though would keep their categorical offices elsewhere, Waldrop said.

The new building’s vicinity to Memorial is approaching to boost sanatorium revenue, England said.

However, Waldrop remarkable that Springfield Clinic doctors are not compulsory or given incentives to impute patients to any sold hospital.

“The doctors who would be formed in a new medical bureau building use sanatorium services some-more frequently than other doctors,” England said.

In further to a $30 million Springfield Clinic 1st building, Memorial Health System paid $7.6 million to erect an bureau building for Springfield Clinic doctors subsequent to Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital, that non-stop final year in Lincoln.

Memorial also paid $12 million for another bureau building for Springfield Clinic doctors that non-stop in 2009 subsequent to another complement hospital, Taylorville Memorial.

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New medicine bureau building

What: Memorial Health System bureau building to be assembled immediately north of Springfield Clinic 1st, 800 N. First St. Would be rented exclusively to Springfield Clinic doctors for outpatient treatment.

Why: To accommodate approaching expansion in a series of doctors and other health-care providers employed by Springfield Clinic; urge coordination of care; and yield a improved recovering sourroundings for chemotherapy patients.

Cost: $60 million, to be paid by Memorial Health System.

When: Construction could start this spring, with execution by Oct 2014. Approval from a Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board isn’t indispensable since a new building wouldn’t yield sanatorium services.

What’s next: An advisory opinion during 6 p.m. Mar 21 by a Springfield Planning and Zoning Commission per due zoning changes. Springfield City Council approaching to opinion Apr 17.

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