UMC building new ‘Health and Wellness Hospital’ in South Lubbock
4 min readLUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – College Health care Center is altering to the growth in Southwest Lubbock by constructing a new 150 million dollar medical center. The ‘Health and Wellness Hospital’ will be close to 110th St. and Slide Rd., changing the outdated Sparkman’s Nursery spot.
UMC CEO Mark Funderburk suggests the group looked at every little thing from in which health care will grow to the growing older and motion of Lubbock’s populace. He says some places are rising more rapidly than other people, like Southwest Lubbock, and companies have to work to be certain well timed entry to health care. He states UMC is attempting to satisfy a will need presently in the spot and will be in the coming decades.
“Think about how major Lubbock is going to develop into and the next loop [Loop 88], effectively it’s 20-25 minutes now to an ER, or a medical doctor, or a most cancers heart. And if you can provide that down to a extra effortless, obtainable level, you can meet persons wherever they are,” he said.
After two many years of acquiring the strategy for the new healthcare facility, building is underway. Funderburk claims the 230,000 sq. foot facility will have ORs, imaging solutions, and an ER with 6 to 8 beds. The hospital will predominantly focus on outpatient products and services. It will also have an outpatient cancer heart for infusion chemotherapy overlooking a backyard garden, office properties for healthcare team, and a wellness centre. Funderburk claims the wellness hospital won’t just be a gym but will be utilized for professional medical wellness tied to patients’ doctors and continuum of care.
“We’re actually seeking to present a little something that truthfully is preventive, and anything that is customer-helpful, and convenient, variety of in the backyard in a great deal of the people today that live out there. It’d be awfully wonderful to have, most likely, your chemotherapy in a new medical center nearer to your house than getting to appear here [the main campus] repetitively, working day following day,” Funderburk mentioned.
Funderburk suggests the title ‘Health and Wellness Hospital’ speaks otherwise than a hospital mostly eaten by beds. He suggests the new medical center also gives UMC the prospect to husband or wife with Texas Tech College to aid assistance the principal campus and its mission – education and charity. When the new hospital won’t have many beds since it will be applied for outpatient expert services, the pandemic has taught the organization that they will inevitably have to insert beds to the main campus. He says it satisfies a growing want in Southwest Lubbock even though relieving some of the congestion at Texas Tech.
“It will ease some of the, potentially, the stress of volume that we have on this campus, as very well as the ER. We will offset some of our ER volumes out there as nicely,” he stated.
UMC is hunting to personnel the healthcare facility with 200-225 new staff, spread across lots of disciplines, from imaging to operation, to the ER, to rehab. Funderburk claims that will be a challenge but anything the medical center will prevail over. He claims the new clinic and devices might be interesting to the personnel coming straight out of school and as additional persons return to do the job as the pandemic lightens up.
“Just the distinctive public areas, both equally internally and in the gardens at the rear of it, we want to offer you anything that people today will feel self-confident and relaxed and hopeful about,” he said.
Construction for the clinic is $126 million, and cash machines will cost involving $20-$25 million. Funderburk claims that will mainly occur from money reserves, besides for the cancer centre, paid out with philanthropy. The ‘Health and Wellness Hospital’ will open up in December 2023.
UMC owns the house guiding and to the south of the 110th St. and Slide Rd. spot. Funderburk suggests that it could be made use of for an urgent care middle.
UMC is also in the middle of setting up a primary care clinic near 98th St. and Frankford Ave. Funderburk suggests it will be for grown ups and young children. He suggests driving the clinic, there will be two lasting generate-via clinics, the place families can pull in, be witnessed, and tested, all from the comfort and ease of their auto. He says it demonstrates what the hospital acquired as a result of the pandemic. Funderburk believes it may perhaps be the initial of its kind in Texas. The primary care clinic is established to open this summer.
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