The patient experience was always more than simply a consideration as the physician-owned Jefferson City Medical Group prepared to build a new outpatient surgery center, the News Tribune reports in Missouri.
The facility is on schedule to open this spring.
After about a year of construction, the center appears it’s nearing completion. But, there are always details to be completed and challenges to be resolved, JCMG officials said.
During the planning stage, group leaders initially suggested a 6,000-square-foot addition to the existing building, but realized that would only be a temporary fix. And, the expense compared to the benefit would have been difficult to justify.
The group settled on building the $17 million, 28,000-square-foot steel, stone and glass structure. The new center boasts three bays that each contain four private pre-operative rooms, around a corner from the waiting area. Read more.
