By Christine Graf
\nTwo $9 million physician-owned medical office buildings will be built on commercial property on Route 9 in Clifton Park.
\nDeveloper Rich Paulsen of Albany\u2019s Paulsen Development will have a minority interest in both buildings, one at 1766 Route 9 and the other at 1785 Route 9.
\nThey are being built by BBL Construction of Albany.
\nOrthNY will be the sole tenant of the two-story, 40,000-square-foot building at 1766 Route 9.
\nConstruction is expected to begin this month, and the projected completion date for the project is September 2020.
\nUpon completion, OrthoNY will relocate their Clifton Park satellite office to the new facility. The satellite office is currently located in leased space in the Ellis Medicine building on Sitterly Road. OrthoNY also has a four-room ambulatory (outpatient) surgery center at 16 Maxwell Drive in Clifton Park. The $5.3 million physician-owned surgical center recently celebrated its grand opening.
\n\u201cClifton Park is still a growing community in some sense. It\u2019s bustling, and with the Shenendehowa School District being so sports-heavy, it seemed like a good location for OrthoNY,\u201d said CEO Julie Shaw. \u201cWe have our major hubs right now in Albany, Saratoga, and Schenectady, and then we have our smaller satellites. Clifton Park is actually smack in the center of all three of those hubs. It\u2019s also an area we see as a great place to expand services. We don\u2019t have a dominant presence in that area right now.\u201d
\nThe new Clifton Park office will have exam rooms, an MRI machine, and a physical therapy office. It will also have an eight-room urgent care that is expected to operate from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. OrthoNY operates smaller urgent cares in Saratoga, Albany, and Schenectady. The Clifton Park office will also feature a spine center that will offer both comprehensive care and pain management procedures.
\n\u201cWe have spine coverage throughout OrthoNY, but we will have pain management physicians who specialize is assessing and evaluating back pain\u2014they call themselves interventional pain management spine specialists,\u201d said Shaw. \u201cThey will be working in conjunction with our orthopedic spine surgeons. Our goal would be to market it as a spine center of excellence and offer some comprehensive care and perhaps even some pain management procedures.\u201d
\nThe center will have a procedure suite that will allow patients to receive epidural steroid injections as well as other procedures. Having an on-site procedure suite eliminates the need for patients to travel to ambulatory surgery centers or hospitals
\nOrthoNY currently employs approximately 400 people at nine locations. They will need to hire additional X-ray techs, medical assistants, and MRI techs to staff the new Clifton Park office.
\nThe OrthoNY office will be located just a short distance from the second building that is being developed by Paulsen Development.
\nLocated at 1785 Route 9, it will be owned by CDPHP, Albany ENT & Allergy Services, Albany Gastroenterology Consultants, Capital Cardiology Associates, and Capital District Renal Physicians. Construction of the two-story, 40,000-square-foot building is expected to begin in March 2020 and be completed by early 2021.
\nExplaining CDPHP\u2019s investment in a project with independent physicians, CDPHP president and CEO John Bennett said, \u201cIt\u2019s been our heritage and strategy for over 30 years to partner with our physicians. We partner with them in many ways that we feel can bring value to our members and to the community at large.
\n\u201cWe were approached by a number of physicians with their idea to provide a better patient care in a building in Clifton Park. When were approached with that opportunity, we said yes. It\u2019s an opportunity for us to show our members and their patients that we can provide a patient experience that offers them things they need that maybe they are not getting.\u201d
\nAccording to Bennett, their goal is to deliver an enhanced patient experience through the use of an integrated delivery system (IDS). Organizations that utilize an IDS provide a continuum of healthcare services and align resources better than most traditional healthcare delivery systems. The use of an IDS has been proven to improve medical care quality while controlling costs.
\n\u201cWe saw this as an opportunity to help these practices provide that for their patients in a way that will provide an experience that will be much smoother and easier with everything from patient scheduling to getting follow up care,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the end of the day, it\u2019s not about the building. It\u2019s about the experience in the health care journey that occurs once you enter the building and after you leave it.\u201d
\nCDPHP will be assisting with the design of the building. Once it is opened, they will provide staffing in the centralized check in and check out area. They will also be involved with the scheduling of referrals, transportation, and follow up visits. CDPHP will offer a variety of classes and programs for their members in the new building.
\nAccording to Bennett, it is unusual for network health insurers to partner with physicians in this manner. No other insurers in the Capital Region employ the use of integrated delivery systems.
\n\u201cThis is our first time doing this, but there are other people who have similar buildings around the country. Through our contacts with other health plans and organizations, we have been able to travel to these places and see what they are doing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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