Union City, Tenn.–Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City and Baptist Medical Group broke ground on Baptist Health Center, a new medical office building on the hospital campus today.
Baptist Medical Group – The Woman’s Health Center Union City will relocate to the new facility. The medical building will measure 24,000 square feet and have space for up to three more tenants. Construction began in September 2021, and the building is projected to open in fall 2022. The project will cost an estimated $10 million.
The Baptist Medical Group is Baptist Memorial Health Care’s multispecialty physician network.
“We are very excited to offer the people of Union City convenient access to important medical services,” said Skipper Bondurant, administrator and CEO of Baptist Union City. “This facility will house local physician practices on our hospital campus, allowing us to treat patients from one location. It also increases access to women’s health services in West Tennessee.”
Others speaking today were: Jeff Rogers, Executive Director, Baptist Medical Group; and Chaplain Michael Dennison, Director of Pastoral Care, who offered a prayer and blessing.
Baptist Union City recently began renovating and expanding the hospital’s Women’s Center with labor/delivery/recovery/postpartum rooms, which will allow maternity patients to stay in one room during childbirth. The expansion will also offer a new four-bed triage bay for assessment and treatment of patients.
Local contractors and sub-contractors on the medical office building project include developer Big River Designs, architect A2H and general contractor Allen Searcy Builder-Contractor Inc.
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City, formerly Obion County General Hospital, became affiliated with Baptist Memorial Health Care in 1982.
Administrator and CEO Skipper Bondurant
Chaplain Michael Dennison
Photos by Kara Ward and Amy Keathley.