MedStar Health is beginning a new construction project and eventually plans to move the MedStar Surgery Center to the MedStar Health building.
"This center will make clinical collaboration as seamless as possible, benefiting both the patients and clinical team," said Andrew Lee, MD, regional primary care medical director for MedStar Medical group. "It is a significant development in improving the way healthcare is being delivered today."
Here are five things to know about the move:
1. MedStar signed a lease with Beacon Capital Partners to develop an 112,000-square-foot ambulatory care campus. The new facility will be named the MedStar Health building.
2. The MedStar Surgery Center has been in the Washington, D.C., community for 35 years and with the relocation physicians and patients will have state-of-the-art surgical capabilities.
3. The new location will bring primary care together with specialty physicians. The center will also include diagnostic services for more collaborative care.
4. MedStar is leasing an additional 20,000 square foot building that will become a new sports medicine center serving athletes and weekend warriors.
5. The new facility is expected to be operational by mid-2016. DTZ is the commercial real estate services firm that will manage the renovation.
"The ultimate benefit to patients will be the co-location of highly qualified physicians and clinical staff in a single facility with state-of-the-art diagnostics, surgery and treatment capabilities," said Wiemi Douoguih, MD, director of sports medicine for MedStar Washington Hospital Center's department of orthopedic surgery.