Baptist campus expanding

Construction has started on an ambulatory surgery center in the building off Highland Colony Parkway at Mississippi 463, and work will begin soon for a family medical clinic at the corner of Main Street and Old Canton Road. Baptist Health System is also planning on building a wellness facility on its 60-acre campus.

"As the market in Madison County has needs for more health care, we will build accordingly," Baptist Health System spokesman Robby Channell said.

Baptist has begun work on the ambulatory center on the ground floor of its building at 401 Baptist Drive. The hospital has held a certificate of need for the out-patient surgery center since planning the building that opened in 2007, Channell said.

Mike Stevens, Baptist vice president of development, told the Madison Board of Aldermen in January that the center will open probably around June or July.

"We don't have a definite date of when we will start treating patients," Channell said.

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