Group Health Opens New Building on Good Samaritan Campus
August 19, 2012
Group Health TriHealth Physician Partners has begun seeing patients at its newest location on the campus of Good Samaritan Hospital. The new building replaces the previous Clifton office on the corner of Clifton Ave. and Martin Luther King Dr.
The new 65,000 square foot building opened to patients on Monday, August 20, 2012. Patients coming to see a Group Health physician or specialist are encouraged to use the covered parking garage below the building with an entrance from Dixmyth Ave. Patients of Good Samaritan can also access the building from a connector on the sixth floor near the Clifton lobby entrance.
Patients benefit from the new location by receiving an unparalleled level of quality and integration of care. The new location has primary and specialty physician offices, a pharmacy, physical therapy, imaging services, infusion therapy and more. The connection to Good Samaritan enhances access to hospital services and increases collaborative opportunities for physicians and staff.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on August 2, with Group Health and TriHealth physicians, administrators and staff as well as community leaders like Cincinnati Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, Hamilton County Commissioner Greg Hartmann, Ohio State Representative Dale Mallory, and Uptown Consortium CEO Beth Robinson.
Uptown Consortium helped TriHealth secure low-cost financing for the $27 million dollar project. The Consortium used its Uptown Partners' Loan Pool, in partnership with Cincinnati Development Fund's Uptown New Market Tax Credits Fund to attract equity investors to the project, including PNC Bank, Fifth Third and JP Morgan Chase Bank.
The new space allows for an expansion of services. Beginning in September, Group Health will offer neurology as a specialty with plans to add another 10 physicians across a range of specialties in the coming months.