Baptist Health, Family Practice Associates to open offices at former Springs Inn site

Baptist Health and Family Practice Associates will have offices in a new $1.5 million, 12,000 square foot building on the site of the former Springs Inn at 2020 Harrodsburg Road.

One of the two Baptist Health offerings at the building will be a team of internal medicine specialists who will provide primary care, Baptist Health spokeswoman Ruth Ann Childers said. The other is a Baptist Health Urgent Care and will be similar to the Baptist Health Urgent Care Lexington at 610 East Brannon Road in Nicholasville, she said.

The practices will open in the spring.

Family Practice Associates now has an office at 1775 Alysheba Way. Its website says it will be opening a second location in April on Harrodsburg Road.

The new offices will be added to the South Broadway/Harrodsburg Road corridor that is full of medical offices and treatment facilities, including Lexington Clinic and KentuckyOne Health’s Saint Joseph Hospital. UK HealthCare at Turfland opened in 2015 on the site of the former Turfland Mall at 2195 Harrodsburg Road.

Family Practice Associates Chief Executive Officer Craig Gillispie said the branch will be 5,000 square feet and initially will have two providers — a nurse practitioner and each of the practice’s 10 physicians rotating through a week at time. The practice may later grow to three providers, he said.

Family Practice Associates at Hamburg has 18,000 square feet. The Harrodsburg Road location will tentatively open on April 18.

The branch will give Family Practice Associates patients from the Harrodsburg Road corridor and Jessamine County easier access, Gillispie said.

The Baptist urgent care will be similar to the one at Brannon Crossing in Jessamine County. Baptist Health is trying to educate its customers “in going to the right place to get what they need, which is not always to the emergency room, Childers said.

Baptist Express Care Clinics at Walmart are staffed by nurse practitioners and treat minor ailments such as colds, rashes and ear or sinus pain; the urgent care centers are staffed with physicians as well as nurse practitioners and provide help with those ailments as well as treating medical situations such as animal bites, mild asthma and urinary tract disorders.

Baptist Health is trying to make sure that people use the emergency room for major injuries and illnesses and life-threatening conditions, she said.

This story was originally published February 12, 2016 at 4:03 PM with the headline "Baptist Health, Family Practice Associates to open offices at former Springs Inn site."