Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Plans $60M Medical Office Building In Middle Tennessee
A multimillion dollar health care facility is coming to Rutherford County.
Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford will begin construction on a $60 million multispecialty medical office building on the hospital’s campus in 2023, according to a news release. A portion of the 102,000-square-foot building will house The Ascension Saint Thomas Cancer Center, a new cancer partnership with Tennessee Oncology.
Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford is Middle Tennessee’s seventh-largest hospital, according to Nashville Business Journal research, with 286 beds and more than 1,000 employees. The announcement comes in the midst of a $110 million campus investment into the main Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford hospital, which is set for completion in 2024 and includes the construction of a parking garage.
The Ascension Saint Thomas Cancer Center will feature surgical, medical and radiation cancer care specialists who will focus on cancer provention, detection and treatment, according to the release. Tennessee Oncology is one of the largest oncology practices in the U.S., according to the release, with 30 centers across 30 states.
“Cancer impacts more than 1.7 million Americans annually. We want to reimagine cancer prevention and care to make screenings and treatment more convenient for the many individuals right here in Murfreesboro and Rutherford County who have been or will be affected,” Gordon Ferguson, president and CEO of Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford, said in the release. “We are honored to partner with the innovators at Tennessee Oncology in a shared goal of fighting cancer in our community.”
Source: Nashville Business Journal
