Guthrie Clinic Waverly office erected

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Published: March 12, 2010

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Review Photo/BRIAN BISHOP A crane prepares to lift the component pieces of Guthrie Clinic's new Waverly office into place.

Installation began Thursday on Guthrie Clinic's new Waverly office, located adjacent to the former office at 37 N. Chemung St.

The new facility is a 2,700 square foot single-story clinic with six patient examination rooms, two provider offices, a waiting room and a reception area, according to a press release from Guthrie. Lon Ovedovitz, M.D., and Nancy Kemp, CFNP, will continue to provide care to patients at the facility, the release stated.

The release continues:

The building was designed and constructed by MODUS Healthcare Manufacturing, a company that specializes in customized modular construction for health care organizations. Three steel and concrete component pieces, weighing close to 10 tons each, were assembled offsite. The components traveled to Waverly this week, and were installed Thursday on a concrete foundation that was previously completed.

In addition to providing an updated space for patient care, the new clinic was engineered and constructed to foster energy conservation, minimize heat loss and more easily accommodate technological updates, like the electronic health record.

Graham Russell, chief operating officer of MODUS Healthcare, said that the building arrived onsite 95 percent complete, with some finishing and mechanical work left to be completed once the sections were in place. A brick veneer, mechanical hookups and some carpeting needed to be installed still, he said, though most of the floor finishes were already completed, as well as wall coverings and paint. The building will also have a pitched roof installed over the concrete roof it arrived with, he said.

The building will be completed in a week to 10 days, Russell said.

Tom Collins, director of regional operations and market strategy, said the building will house a full range of primary health care, and includes examination rooms and a small laboratory.

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