New medical building being built

AIRWAY HEIGHTS – Residents of Airway Heights can look forward to a new medical facility currently being built along Sunset Highway.

The brand is a familiar name though, as Multi-Care Rockwood Clinic is moving the facility that is currently at 10414 W. Highway 2.

According to Jessica McHugh, the Chief Medical Officer for the Airway Heights Rockwood Clinic, the new building is expected to be finished and ready for patients in the first quarter of 2024.

McHugh also said the facility will be bigger than the existing one.

“We’re going to have space for 18 exam rooms,” McHugh said. “So, we’ll have a core of primary care physicians. We’ll have behavioral health services and lab services.”

“Really we’re expanding to make sure we’re taking a team-based approach to care and expanding access for new and existing patients,” she added.

McHugh also said there was over a year of discussion and planning that went into this decision.

According to McHugh, the contractor said this facility has a very intelligent design that is “ruthlessly efficient.”

Mark Losh, Chief Executive Officer for the West Plains Chamber of Commerce said the region needs this facility to accommodate the growth we are seeing.

“We need this so much in this region,” Losh said. “The Airway Heights/West Plains region so fast, the fastest growing light industrial area which means business, which means homes, which means families which means growth.

According to Rockwood’s Chief Financial Officer, Stefan Harvey, MultiCare is building new partnerships as the company expands.

“Rockwood clinic and MultiCare have partnered with high quality providers in the community,” Harvey said. “To create a care network called MultiCare Connected Care.”

They are partnering with self-insured employers to open more care opportunities for people.

“I think what excites me most about that opportunity is that we get to sit down with employers,” Harvey said. “And talk about employees and their families, and how we can take better care of them.”

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