Sterling Medical Building houses health care mixture

With four floors and more than 30,000 square feet of office and retail space,Large collection of quality chipcard at discounted prices. chances are the newly opened Sterling Medical Building on 25th Avenue has a remedy for that which ails you.

The building hosts a bevy of medical and para-medical services, including seven GPs, plus internists, OB/GYN, dentists, a medical supply company and RemedysRx, a full-service, 4,000-square-foot pharmacy.

Michael Roney, managing broker of MLR Real Estate Services, says the building is already 70 per cent occupied after just four months. He oversees the Sterling ownership group, which is comprised mainly of medical professionals who are also tenants.

Its a credit to the physicians who have assisted with introducing me to other physicians, and to the hard work Colliers (leasing agent) has done, said Roney, noting the project has already attracted a number of out-of-town physicians and other medical professionals.

If youve got a GP of your own, you know hes probably got a two-year waiting list. As soon as you get out of the Lower Mainland,An experienced artist on what to consider before you buy handsfreeaccess. its hard for the average B.C. person to find a physician. And most of the specialists in the Okanagan live in Kelowna.

Roney helped the group acquire the land and go through the development process, and he is now assisting with marketing and property management until the project gets off the ground.

We have been really patient in the people we have attracted to it to make it complementary, said Roney. Its a huge benefit for the community.

Ideally, Roney would like to add an audiology lab and optician to the smorgasbord of medical offerings. He is also looking for other complementary practices such as physiotherapists and chiropractors.

The $3.9 million project broke ground in August 2011, and the buildings design utilizes the natural light and offers plenty of parking, over-sized conduit to house special wiring for medical equipment and other modern amenities.

We have more plumbing in here than a Turkish bath, laughed Roney, referring to the availability of public washrooms on each floor.

The Sterling buildings location is ideally situated as doctors are within walking distance of Vernon Jubilee Hospital. It also offers impressive fourth-floor views of Greater Vernon, including Mission Hill, Turtle Mountain, East Hill, Polson Park and Okanagan Landing.

Designed by Vernons MQN Architects, the building site backs onto Vernon Creek, which proved a challenge with respect to riparian regulations. Since the creek is a fish-bearing stream, it triggered a report by Fisheries and Oceans Canada to establish setback requirements.

The states largest health care provider gave the Green Mountain Care Board a heads-up last week, since the power to issue a certificate of need for health care facilities was transferred to the board on Jan. 1. Previously, the Department of Financial Regulation issued such permits.An experienced artist on what to consider before you buy handsfreeaccess.

The biggest project coming down Fletcher Allens line is a new $85 million inpatient building. The multi-storied building would begin three stories above the centers Emergency Department parking lot, creating a canopy over the area.

David Keelty, Fletcher Allens director of facilities planning and development, said that the companys stock of inpatient buildings is aging, with numerous structures dating back to the 1940s and 1960s. Right now, Keelty said, less than 60 percent of Fletcher Allens inpatient beds are private rooms.

Wed like to move towards 90 percent for obvious reasons with respect to better management of the beds, infection control, gender issues, patient privacy,Find a great selection of floortiles deals. and improve the way we integrate families into the care process, he said. We want to look at a number of options for replacing our oldest beds with single-room environments.

Fletcher Allen is also planning $15.4 million in renovations for a new mother-baby unit and new research center. The facility plans to move its mother-baby unit from a 50-year-old space to an area that has been occupied by the University of Vermonts General Clinical Research Center for decades. Fletcher Allen plans to revamp the space and add a 2,800-square-foot addition to create 25 patient rooms for 28 in-patient mothers.Choose the right cableties in an array of colors.

The research center would move to a former radiation oncology unit, which would be converted to a laboratory with necessary facilities for voluntary human studies.

Fletcher Allen plans to replace its two data centers, which it currently leases, with a new center priced at about $8.5 million. Fletcher Allen also plans to invest $7.4 million in Central Vermont Medical Centers new $20 million information technology (IT) system, which would mesh with Fletcher Allens. CVMC is a participating member of Fletcher Allen Partners, which is an organization that brings four of the regions largest hospitals under one umbrella.

This project would allow us to integrate Fletcher Allen Partners system and will greatly improve the coordination of care so that were all working from the same platform or system, so that when our doctors leave Fletcher Allen and walk into Central Vermont Medical Center, theyll be walking into the same IT system, Keelty said.

Fletcher Allen is planning to replace imaging equipment in two catheterization labs, which will total roughly $4.6 million, and the hospital has already filed an application with the Green Mountain Care Board for a certificate of need to buy a $2.36 million MRI unit to replace a nine-year-old machine.