Construction on a new Jackson Clinic and Baptist Memorial Health Care outpatient center in Jackson-Madison County, continues at the junction of U.S. Highway 45 and Passmore Lane near Three Way.
When completed, surgeries and procedures to be performed at the center will include gastrointestinal, ophthalmologic, gynecological, general, plastic, urologic, pediatric as well as ear, nose and throat.
Diagnostic heart catheterizations will also be performed at the center.
According to The Jackson Clinic, the new outpatient center will give patients more choices, lower patient costs and shorten wait times for surgical procedures.
While providing greater access for patients in surrounding communities, the outpatient center will also create new jobs and generate additional revenue for the city and county.
Outpatient surgery centers have become an increasingly popular option for surgeries that do not require an overnight hospital stay.
Each year, physicians perform more than 23 million procedures in outpatient surgery centers; a number that continues to grow as more patients choose the convenience, quality and lower cost of an outpatient setting. The new outpatient center will be Medicare certified and accredited.
An opening date has not been announced.
(PHOTO: The Jackson Clinic and Baptist Memorial Health Care outpatient center in Jackson-Madison County – junction of U.S. Highway 45 and Passmore Lane near Three Way)
