First building on Baptist Health campus in Hamburg hits key milestone. See the progress.
Baptist Health Hamburg held a “topping off” ceremony Tuesday to place the final steel beam on its four-story new ambulatory care center under construction at its new campus in the Hamburg area.
Construction began on the 330,800 square foot building on Polo Club Boulevard in November 2020.
The new building, which has long been in the works, will include an emergency room, cancer center, outpatient surgery center, diagnostic imaging and physician offices.
Tuesday’s ceremony included placing one of the final steel beams on top of the building. That beam had signatures of key people involved in the project.
“We are going to open in the spring 2024,” said Chris Roty, president of Baptist Health Lexington. Congleton-Hacker Co., CMW Architects & Engineers, HKS Architects, and CMTA Consulting Engineering are partners in the project.
“We are super excited,” Roty said. “There is no medical facility on this side of town.”
The hospital system has owned the property since 2009. It announced in 2019 plans to expand to the Hamburg area. Roty said the vast majority of Baptist Health Lexington’s patients are from outside of Fayette County. Because of it’s proximity to Interstate 75, the new ambulatory care center will be easier to get to than Baptist Health Lexington’s campus on Nicholasville Road.
Baptist Health Lexington will remain at the Nicholasville Road location.
After the ambulatory care center opens in 2024, the hospital plans to start construction on an inpatient hospital that will have 40 inpatient beds and 20 observation beds, Roty said.
The hospital could add additional inpatient beds in the future, he said. The hospital owns 129 acres on Polo Club Boulevard.
“We will be hiring several hundred people,” Roty said.
It will not be the only medical campus in the Hamburg area.
University of Kentucky Health Care announced Friday it had purchased 27 acres of land adjacent to Baptist Health Lexington on Polo Club Boulevard. The university’s tentative plans include a new hospital, clinical and medical office facilities.
“We were the first to recognize that locating in Hamburg would best serve our growing number of patients who live and work in that area of our Commonwealth,” said Ruth Ann Childers, a spokeswoman for Baptist Health Lexington. “We are not surprised that someone would follow our lead, and we are excited to open our new emergency room, outpatient surgery center, cancer center, and physician office buildings in the spring of 2024.”
This story was originally published June 21, 2022 at 10:02 AM.
