McBride Clinic Orthopedic Hospital Scheduled to Open By Month's End
Posted on: Monday, 15 August 2005, 18:01 CDT
Aug. 12--Oklahoma City's newest niche medical center is the $20 million McBride Clinic Orthopedic Hospital at 9600 Broadway Extension.
It is scheduled to open Aug. 29, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception Sept. 12.
The 100,000-square-foot hospital will have six operating rooms, 40 acute-care beds and 40 rehabilitation beds.
McBride Clinic needed to open a specialty hospital to accommodate an increasing demand for orthopedic services, officials said Thursday.
The staff includes 15 orthopedic surgeons, five arthritis specialists, sports medicine specialists and a foot doctor.
The hospital is on 15 acres at Broadway Extension and Britton Road.
"This new hospital exemplifies the very core values that the McBride Clinic was founded upon back in 1919," said Troy Hensarling, hospital chief executive officer. "We want to do everything we can to hold true to the vision that Dr. McBride had when he started this practice."
"We wanted to care for patients without the distractions of the needs in a general hospital," said Dr. Tom Howard, president of McBride Clinic.
Howard, an orthopedic surgeon, said McBride Clinic's patient load at the affiliated Bone and Joint Hospital had become so overloaded that a niche hospital specializing in orthopedic services was needed.
"McBride Clinic has been continuously growing and expanding services since it was founded in 1919," Howard said.
McBride Clinic and the 77-bed Bone and Joint Hospital will remain open.
Medical practitioners at the new northside orthopedic hospital will perform total joint replacements of the knee, hip and shoulder, along with a full range of spinal procedures and surgeries.
It also will have an emergency room devoted primarily to orthopedic-related injuries.
The hospital is at the northeast corner of Broadway Extension and Britton Road, just north of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma and One Benham Place. Access will be available from the Broadway Extension service road and Oklahoma Avenue.
McBride Clinic staffers also will continue to treat patients at clinics in Edmond and Norman and at the McBride Clinic Occupational Health Center, 4901 W Reno in Oklahoma City.
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