Mercy Northwest Arkansas held a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday for its $40 million multispecialty clinic in Springdale.
The two-story, 60,000-SF clinic will feature 29 primary care exam rooms and 34 exam rooms for specialty care, Dr. Steve Goss, president of Mercy Clinic, said in a Mercy news release.
Ten primary care physicians and 12 specialists will work at the clinic "and that’s just to start," he said. The specialties offered include cardiology, urology, orthopedics and ear, nose and throat.
The clinic also will have a 24-hour emergency department with 12 exam rooms and one trauma room. It will feature a helipad for cases where a patient needs to be stabilized before being flown to Mercy’s hospital in Rogers or another one, Goss said.
The clinic will be the largest of seven clinics in a $247 million expansion project that also adds a seven-story tower to the Mercy's Rogers hospital, according to the news release.
Construction will begin immediately on the building on the 31-acre site at Elm Springs Road and 48th Street. The building is expected to take 15 months to complete.
Bates Architects of Springfield, Missouri, is designing the building and DeWitt & Associates Inc. of Springfield, Missouri, is the general contractor.
During the ceremony, Mercy Hospital President Eric Pianalto thanked the Shewmaker family for its $1.5 million gift to Mercy Health Foundation for the construction of the clinic. The late Jack Shewmaker was a former president and chief operating officer for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville. He retired from the retailer in 1988 and died in 2010.
