on the path
By Brandon Klein
Health Care in Your Back Yard
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ew Albany’s relationship with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) takes another step as the university health system opens a large outpatient health and surgery center facility in its back yard this summer. Located at the Hamilton Quarter mixed-use development along state Route 161, the estimated 250,000-square-foot facility will consist of a medical office building and an ambulatory surgery center, which houses surgery, endoscopy, physical therapy and rehabilitation, imaging, urgent care, retail pharmacy and sterilization operations, among others. “It’s really a dynamic one-stop-shop for health and wellness care,” says Garth Dahdah, director of strategic growth and
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facility operations for ambulatory services for the OSUWMC. Patients, for instance, can have imaging, surgery, post-operative care and follow-ups in the same location. If needed, they can access mammograms, colonoscopies, and routine and diagnostic services, including obstetrics and gynecology; ophthalmology; ear, nose and throat; allergy; infusion; heart and vascular; and digestive services. “We wanted to have an outpatient health and surgery that can see a good number of patients and it can be comprised of all these different specialties,” Dahdah says. “So they’re not bouncing from location to location, if they come in and see their primary care physician and they need to get a
chest X-ray, they can do it right there, they need to get labs, they can do it right there. They want to get their medications filled, they can get them filled right there.” The $137.9 million project is expected to employ 350 faculty, providers and staff combined, generate a projected payroll of $50 million within the next decade, and offer positions for medical professionals and opportunities for medical students to work with larger, more diverse patient populations. It will complement the OSUWMC’s main campus, its services at the Philip Heit Center for Healthy New Albany, the clinic on Market Street and the health center in Gahanna that some New Albany residents may be using now. www.healthynewalbanymagazine.com
Photo courtesy of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
OSU Wexner Medical Center’s New Albany outpatient health and surgery center opens this summer
