Developer Completes 140,000-SF Medical Office

ROLLA, MO-Healthcare Development Partners LLC has completed a 140,000-sf, six-story medical office building here, to be connected to the Phelps County Regional Medical Center. The $27-million building will house both offices for doctors as well as a surgery center for both inpatient and outpatient needs.

Medical center officials say that the outpatient need has grown in the region, and that the hospital’s surgery rooms are overcrowded. The center is just about halfway between St. Louis and Springfield. To aid construction, the development company was able to cut expensive inpatient costs, says Todd Bryant, president and managing member of Healthcare Development. “The way we constructed the new office building, it has an inpatient rating because they can be taken through a connected pedestrian walkway to do procedures such as MRIs and diagnostic work,” he says. “The rest of the building, however, is for outpatient, so there’s a real cost efficiency.”