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Rock Hill, S.C., Hospital Seeks Permission to Build Imaging Center

Posted on: Friday, 31 March 2006, 18:00 CST

By Sula Pettibon, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.

Mar. 30--Piedmont Medical Center in April will ask the state's permission to build a $6.2 million imaging center at a medical campus it is developing on Sutton Road in Baxter Village.

The 6,585-square-foot center will provide CT and MRI scans, ultrasound and digital radiology and will be located across from the urgent care center PMC opened in 2002.

The imaging center is part of a long-range plan for the area developed by PMC and Clear Springs Development, said Charlie Miller, the hospital's president and chief executive officer.

"This project is part of a series of projects we laid out in 1999," Miller said. "The timing isn't anything more than the natural evolution of the growth in the community."

PMC plans to apply for a certificate of need from the state Department of Health and Environmental Control in about 20 days, he said. If uncontested, the application process will take four to five months. Construction would take nine to 12 months, with the center opening in the fall of 2007.

PMC owns about 15 acres on Sutton Road, where long-term plans calls for building an ambulatory surgery center and offices for doctors.

The urgent care center saw a 38 percent increase last year and a third doctor has been hired, Miller said. The hospital also is planning to hire a doctor of internal medicine at the urgent care center and hopes to soon announce a family practice in Fort Mill.

PMC, whose parent company is the Texas-based Tenet Healthcare, is one of four companies wanting to build a hospital in Fort Mill.

Applications for the hospital and the imaging center are not competing, said Joel Grice, director of DHEC's Bureau of Health Facilities and Services Department. Many facilities around the state have outpatient imaging centers that keep people from having to go to the hospital.

No one else has indicated plans to apply for an imaging center in the area, Grice said.

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