The clinic will be constructed on 15 of those acres, while the remaining 20 acres can be sold by Seton at its discretion. Rather than increase property taxes, or pay the health care provider a cash incentive, Elgin handed over 35 acres of land - valued at about $1.5 million - in the undeveloped area near the intersection of Lee Dildy Boulevard and Roy Rivers Road. The entities worked out a deal that will not pass building costs to taxpayers and will help Seton overcome operating losses in its first years of operation. “But in Central Texas, Seton’s like the Cadillac of health care, so it makes it much more exciting for us.”įor two years, Mattis and Elgin city officials have been engaging with the health care provider to draw it to the city. “We’d be excited about getting anybody in Elgin,” said Elgin City Manager Thomas Mattis. The clinic will be the first medical facility of its kind in the city since the community hospital shuttered in the 1970s, Seton said. The 5,000-square-foot facility is slated to be completed by November and is designed to be scalable to continue to meet the needs of the community as its population grows. The $2.5 million clinic, which will be licensed as a rural health clinic, will offer primary and after-hours urgent care, a laboratory, X-ray services, nine examination rooms and access to Seton’s telemedicine network. Seton Healthcare Family broke ground Wednesday on a health center in Elgin that officials say will address the unmet health care needs of the growing community.
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