Pavilion recognized in trade magazine

GLASGOW T.J. Health Pavilion got the attention of a national trade magazine for its conversion of a vacant big box retail space into an outpatient services center of T.J. Samson Community Hospital.

The article noting the pavilion and other facilities that are using alternative methods, such as modular, prefabricated construction, and vacant space for outpatient services was one of a group of reports titled Trends in Health Care 2013 in Health Facilities Managements December edition. The reports are also online at hfmmagazine.com.

Jeff Ferenc, senior editor of Health Facilities Management, summarizes the pavilion project in four paragraphs of his report, Doing more with less, which also features a half-page photo of the main lobby of T.J. Pavilion and an exterior image a few pages later. More than half a dozen graphics illustrate construction and other statistics related to the overall report.

Other photos are from facilities in Marion, Va., and New York City.

Ferenc calls the pavilion a success story with regard to its usage of a vacant building.

T.J. Samson Community Hospital, Glasgow, needed to consolidate its physician groups and relieve parking congestion on its main campus, so it built the multipurpose facility a few miles away from the hospital, he writes.

He continues with the fact that the previous retail space was gutted and redesigned.

The result is a contemporary-looking, highly visible, energy-efficient health care facility with a geothermal HVAC system that merges clinical space with community use, Ferenc writes, paraphrasing Paul Edwards with Stengel Hill Architecture in Louisville, which designed the facility, and he adds that Edwards estimates the hospital saved about $5 million and four months construction time by building there.

Were extremely proud of the facility, and its great that we were honored int his article. said Bart Logsdon, hospital marketing liason and spokesperson. We were extremely pleased that we could turn a building that had been vacant for years into a thriving entity. The tenants in the adjacent spaces have continuously thanked us for revitalizing the center.

T.J. Health Pavilion got the attention of a national trade magazine for its conversion of a vacant big box retail space into an outpatient services center of T.J. Samson Community Hospital.

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