Hospital demolition to begin next year

Demolition will begin by the middle of next year for Community Mercy Health Partners former main hospital building on its Fountain Boulevard campus.

Its hard to say when that demolition will begin, said Dave Lamb, a spokesman for CMHP. But it will most likely begin later in the first half of next year when the weather begins to clear, he added.

Plans are also in the works to demolish the former mental health services building that is on that campus. Demolition for that facility will also likely begin next year, Lamb said.

The mental health building and the hospital building are both coming down in the same general time frame, Lamb said. Were treating it as one demolition project. We dont have the exact order at this time.

Mental Health Services for Clark and Madison Counties has since relocated to a newer office space at 474 N. Yellow Springs St., across from the Springfield Regional Medical Center downtown.

Despite the demolition of the former main hospital and the mental health services buildings next year, CMHP does not currently have further plans to redevelop or sell the Fountain Avenue campus, Lamb said.

Were spending money on renovations, so were planning on staying there for a while, Lamb said.

The Springfield Regional Imaging Center, at 1343 N. Fountain Blvd., is also on the Fountain campus. The imaging center is still in use and fully functioning, Lamb said, and will remain at that location.

The campus also includes the Mercycrest Medical Arts Building, 30 W. McCreight Ave., which provides space for physician offices, as well as the Springfield Regional Sleep Center and Community Mercy Med Assist.

CMHP is also spending about $1.6 million to renovate vacant office space in the former Mercy St. Johns Center, 100 W. McCreight Ave. That facility, which also provides space for Excel Pediatric Rehab, will be also soon be used as office space for employees currently located at 1 S. Limestone St. in downtown Springfield. Those employees will serve a variety of functions, ranging from finance, accounts payable and marketing, among others.

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Hospital demolition to begin next year