WRMC to get new medical office building – Weatherford Democrat

The Parker County Hospital District Board of Directors Thursday voted unanimously to move ahead with a medical office building project.

The district has been in discussions with Weatherford Regional Medical Center for some time about the possibility of a medical office building, which would help alleviate some of the hospital space problems and benefit the community, attorney and PCHD interim administrator Brian Jackson said.

What we are contemplating moving forward with is an arrangement by which, on district-owned land, we would construct a medical office building that would be used by Weatherford Regional Medical Center for its physicians, Jackson said.

A building is expected to be constructed on property owned by the district in the 700 block of Anderson Street near the hospital.

Community Health Systems would pay rent in addition to the rent it pays for use of the hospital.

Calculating the amount of rent is always difficult to do. However, the arrangement that I think would be favorable for the district would be for the district to charge a percentage of the cost of the construction of the building, Jackson said.

Jackson said he is hopeful that they can reach an agreement for annual payments of 6 percent of the construction cost of the building.

That would be cheaper than rental rates WRMC can get on the open market, Jackson said.

The details of the building, such as size and cost, havent been decided.

Legal documents detailing occupancy, upkeep and other arrangements would need to be worked out and any agreements between the Weatherford Regional Medical Center and the hospital district would come to the districts board of directors for approval, Jackson said.

Jackson does not expect the hospital district to use the building for its own expansion needs.

This is more an opportunity for Weatherford Regional Medical Center to bring in more physicians, more specialties, support the existing physicians [and] have an office building for them thats close to the hospital that that can access, Jackson said.

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