Methodist Plans North Side Medical Complex

Methodist Medical Center has filed a Certificate of Need application with the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board for the construction of a three-story $27.7 million medical office building. The application was filed on Monday, March 10, 2008.
The new facility, Methodist at Allen Road, will be located on a six-acre parcel of land within Sud’s Plaza on North Allen Road. Methodist also owns an adjacent six-acre tract of land for future expansion.
Methodist President and CEO Michael Bryant said the project is being undertaken to meet the community’s need for additional medical office space and to provide Methodist patients with a convenient and very accessible location for state-of-the art outpatient medical services. “ The addition of Methodist at Allen Road enhances our vision of ‘Taking You Well Into the Future’ by providing patients with the latest in digital technology. Included in that technology is an all-paperless medical records system and RelayHealth, the first of its kind service in Central Illinois providing patients their personal health record with conveniences such as direct online access to their physicians and staff. Methodist has become a nationally recognized leader in health information technology and patient safety and Methodist at Allen Road will be another major step in providing convenient state of the art medical care by keeping our patients informed, connected, most importantly, healthy utilizing technology.”
In addition to physician offices, the facility will include therapy, a retail pharmacy, conference center, and a state-of-the-art digital diagnostic imaging center including a 3T MRI, 64 slice CT scanner, mammography, ultrasound, x-ray, nuclear medicine, vascular lab, echo, stress and bone density scanning.
Construction on the 79,500 square foot complex is expected to start in August of this year with an anticipated completion in late 2009.