Denver Health Breaks Ground On New Outpatient Center
DENVER (CBS4) -- Denver Health officially broke ground on a new outpatient center.
The 293,000 square foot building will be located at 660 Bannock Street, between 6th Avenue and Speer Boulevard.
Officials say the facility will significantly increase the hospital's ability to provide outpatient care.
"We don't want people to wait until they're sick enough to go to an emergency room. We want to provide care in our primary care clinics and we want to have enough capacity to be able to give them the specialty care that they need," said Robin Wittenstein, Denver Health Chief Executive Officer.
Close to half of the $157 million cost to build the Outpatient Medical Center (OMC) is coming from a citywide bond measure which was passed by Denver voters last fall, officials said in the statement.
The building is expected to be completed in 2020.