CHI Health Family Health Center hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Grand Island, Nebraska to celebrate the opening of its new integrated facility. The building is split into four pods to provide patients privacy and ensure all needed services are available under one roof. CHI Health invested over $30 million in the 40,000 square foot facility, which will encapsulate all current ambulatory services.
The new facility offers comprehensive care in one location, including primary care physicians, an after-hours clinic, specialists, a pharmacy, rehabilitation services, and a behavioral health office. According to Steve Schiebar, president of CHI Health St. Francis, the previous arrangement had providers scattered around the whole community and some services like the pharmacy were not previously available. The facility will serve Grand Island residents and communities starting April 6.
Construction and Community Impact
The new location is in a growing area of Grand Island. It took 60,000 hours of planning, designing and construction to make the facility possible. The building was blessed by Bishop Joseph G. Hanefeldt during the ceremony. According to Dr. Shane Burr, a physiatrist at CHI Health Clinic Grand Island, the celebration was ultimately about the people who will work at the center and those being served in the community. “We can’t do that without a building to do it in. And this is just one fabulous building,” Burr said. The CHI Family Health Center was not originally scheduled to open for another seven weeks but construction finished early.
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