The Health Annex (Update)

By: Michelle Franklin |
Jan 23, 2025

By:
Michelle Franklin, FACHE
Chief Executive Officer
Sullivan County Community Hospital

While growth is almost always a good thing, there does come a point when it impacts your ability to execute! We’ve found ourselves in this position for a number of years. I often have people ask why we don’t have our own specialists or why we haven’t expanded a certain department. The answer is, we don’t have the space!

The Health Annex is our first step in creating space to be able to execute on a couple of key strategies…access to care and growth. So what is the Health Annex? The Health Annex is a 30,000 square foot medical office building located on the SCCH campus behind the hospital’s southeast corner.

Several service lines will be re-located to the Health Annex from the hospital proper in May of 2025. This includes our Pain Management Center which will see substantially more space with a much better patient flow and plenty of room for practitioner growth. Sullivan Foot & Ankle and Sullivan Ortho will move to the new building and will have on-site radiology right by these specialties. Again, the space will be larger and will be much easier for our staff and our patients to navigate.

The Health Annex will has dedicated space for the addition of 6 new providers whether they be family practice or some sort of specialty care. We anticipate that 3 of the 6 spaces will be filled by new family medicine physicians coming to our campus in 2025. We will then continue our recruiting efforts and do our best to fill these remaining openings. Like other clinics, the Health Annex will also house its own lab area so that patients visiting providers within this building can have their labs drawn without having to visit the main hospital.

Once we have re-located providers from the hospital to the Health Annex, we will begin to look at what services should be brought into the hospital to backfill the vacated areas.

You’ll also notice some change to the traffic pattern on campus as the Health Annex will have an entrance coming off Section Street. After passing the Health Annex, a roundabout will allow you to continue on via Mary Sherman Drive.

We’re very excited as our campus continues to change and evolve to meet the healthcare needs of our community!

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