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Rendering courtesy of Cone Health
An architect’s rendering of Cone Health’s new 102,000-square-foot medical center which is under construction near the corner of Drawbridge Parkway and Battleground Avenue in Greensboro. The medical center, which is scheduled to open by the end of this year, will offer a stand-alone emergency department, imaging services, physician offices, an oncology department and physical therapy.
I understand the building under construction at the corner of Drawbridge Parkway and Battleground Avenue will be a medical facility. Can you provide more details about it? Cone Health is building an emergency services and imaging complex at this location; the facility will be very similar to other area Cone Health MedCenters in Kernersville, High Point and Mebane, confirmed Doug Allred, external communications manager for Cone Health. “Our MedCenters are models of moving health care services into the community where consumers want them,” stated Terry Akin, CEO, Cone Health, on the health system’s website. “The location just off of the urban loop will be very convenient for people, not only in Greensboro, but in all of northwest Guilford County and western Rockingham County.”
The 17-bed emergency department will provide an alternative to emergency departments at The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital and Wesley Long Hospital. Cone Health renovated and expanded those emergency departments within the past 10 years, but they have been used at a much higher rate than expected.
the new medical facility, which does not yet have a name, are:
The MedCenter will also make it much easier for people to get MRIs, CTs, X-rays and other imaging services without having to travel to a hospital.
• Physical therapy
Some of the services provided at
• A stand-alone emergency department • Physician offices, both primary care and specialist • Radiology (MRIs, CTs, X-ray) • Oncology • 102,000 sq. ft. on 9 acres Cone Health’s new MedCenter is projected to open by the end of this year.
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