You'll like what we've become.
Progress! At times our impatience makes us think the construction will never end, but in reality, it's moving along quickly. As all our neighbors know, we are currently undertaking the biggest construction project LMC has ever been involved with in its nearly 30 year history.
The building was designed as a two-story, state-of-the-art medical plaza, divided into 4 separate physician suites. The large use of glass and coordinating LMC-colored brick has made this new building a stand out as one of the most eye-catching in our area. Located only inches (literally) from LMC's building, the offices allow our doctors and their patients easy access to diagnostic and laboratory procedures within the medical center. Added parking makes convenience a plus. Inside the building, you'll find lots of natural light and contemporary fixtures.
The building opened this past summer and the four practices were never so glad to box up their things and move in. Those practices are:
Phase 1 - Done!
As bulldozers started tearing up parking lots and unearthing trees last fall, 7 physicians looked on eagerly. This mound of dirt was soon to be their new home: the $1.6 million, 16,000 square foot Lincoln Medical Arts Building.
Lincoln Center for Women's Health
Berniece Redmond, MD
Suite C
735-2134
Lincoln Children's Health Center
Tanya de la Vergne, MD, FAAP
Rabindran Israel, MD
Joseph Wolyniak, DO
Suite B
732-4778
Lincoln Ear, Nose & Throat Associates
Francis J. Milewski, MD
Suite D
736-9890
This past March those bulldozers moved over a few feet and began work on LMC's new wing. As everyone soon found out, LMC's main entrance temporarily relocated to the side of our building while we expand out. When our new $5.7 million, 40,000 square foot wing is completed it will not only have increased the medical center's size by over 40% but will have moved our front door out approximately 200 feet, putting a new face on your old friend.The new wing, which is expected to be complete and occupied by this April, will house the main lobby and information desk, inpatient Optima Therapies (physical, occupational, and speech therapies), outpatient registration and testing, surgical suite which includes 3 operating rooms and 1 cysto room, Community Education Classrooms, Library, Human Resource Department, and Gift Shop.
The outside of the wing is near completion. Through the winter, the construction crew and carpenters will be relocating their efforts indoors. The marble-style floors, carpeted hallways, and floor-to-ceiling smoked-glass windows will utterly change forever the look of healthcare in Lincolnton.
Much needed and long-anticipated changes are already evident on the Maternity floor. New, VIP-type, labor-delivery-recovery (LDR) suites have been added while the older ones have been redesigned, totaling 5 home-like birthing rooms for mom & baby in this new birthing center we've appropriately named New Beginnings. Following recovering, the new family will then move to their own room for the rest of their stay. The redesigned rooms will be decorated with oak and brass fixtures in a contemporary style, complete with a sofa for dad. Finally, the maternity's new, newborn nursery will have a feeding/pumping room for the convenience of new moms who may be discharged before their babies.
Other interior renovations to the medical center include expansion of the Laboratory, doubling its size; expansion of the Emergency Department, making it about 70% larger than it currently is; and giving the Radiology department a whole new look.
These changes are right on track. In fact the first baby to be born in our new rooms was born before Thanksgiving. (Mom, dad, and baby - all doing fine.) The completion of all aspects of the medical center's interior are expected by November of 1998.