Construction is steadily progressing on ProMedica’s new health and wellness center at Starlite Plaza in Sylvania.
The three-story, 230,000 square foot facility, which is to open in January, will bring essential medical services together at one location.
“They will be done in mid-November and hand us the keys,” Dr. Daniel Cassavar, president and chief medical officer of ProMedica Physicians, said. “We’ll do some testing. We’ll do some initial layout of furniture. We will move our physician groups in over three weekends in January and by mid-January we’ll be fully operational.”
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The facility will have primary care and specialty physician offices, radiology and laboratory services, a walk-in clinic, and a community room for educational programs.
“The goal is to keep patients out of the hospital,” Dr. Cassavar said. “Here we have our primary care physicians and many subspecialists they utilize on a daily basis. They can get the patient in, get them seen, get them seen by a sub-specialist and hopefully get what they need before they deteriorate any further.”
About 130 physicians will work in the health and wellness center, about 60 of whom will be primary care physicians. The rest will be subspecialists. Dr. Cassavar said he anticipates 200 hundred patients an hour and about 1,500 patients throughout the day.
Also on site will be optical and behavioral health services, an endoscopy center, and pharmacy services.
“We’ll have X-ray, we’ll have lab, we’ll have pharmacy, we’ll have all the ancillary services we need so that a patient can get everything done at once and we can be quicker and more crisp in getting them their diagnosis and putting them on the right treatment plan and hopefully avoid them getting to a point where they need to be hospitalized,” Dr. Cassavar said.
Contact Brian Buckey at: bbuckey@theblade.com or 419-376-9414.
First Published August 5, 2015, 12:00 a.m.
