Sutter Gould Medical Foundation's 600 Coffee Road clinic opens
MODESTO – January 2009 – Sutter Gould Medical Foundation has opened the 132,000 square foot replacement clinic at 600 Coffee Road. This project creates more appropriately sized and efficiently designed space for key departments and services, including lab, radiology, urgent care and oncology.
• The clinic at 600 Coffee Road will house Gould physicians that practiced at our current 600 Coffee Road clinic, in addition to physicians moving from three of our other locations (Spanos Court – family medicine physicians, 1144 Coffee – internal medicine and nephrology physicians, and Dale Road - podiatrists).
• The relocation began in January and when the last department has moved in, there will be 70 GMG physicians (practicing 15 specialties from audiology to urology), and over 400 employees in the new clinic.
• SGMF anticipates seeing an average of 100 patients each hour.
Key enhancements include:
• SGMF imaging services, utilizing state-of-the-art imaging equipment, including a 64-slice CT scanner capable of cardiac and coronary artery studies, virtual colonoscopies and cutting-edge CT imaging, as well as an MRI unit, 3 digital mammography rooms, 5 x-ray rooms and 4 ultrasound rooms.
• an expanded Oncology and Hematology center with enhanced infusion services and a healing garden.
• an expanded Urgent Care Center.
• modern, well designed check in, waiting room and exam rooms throughout the four-story facility.
• 4-Stories, 132,000 Square feet, 151 exam rooms, 53 doctors’ offices,
As with all of SGMF’s new construction projects, the medical office building is equipped with new health technology features. EPIC, Sutter Gould’s electronic medical record system, allows Gould physicians to access a patient’s medical record instantly to review lab results, prior physician visits, and prescription histories. The computer resources at the physician’s fingertips also include PACS, a filmless picture archiving and communications system that allows Gould radiologists to share digital images and diagnoses instead of shipping X-ray film between locations.
When the removal of the old 600 Coffee Road clinic is complete, we will have recycled over 90% of the building materials, keeping them from landfills.
The new facility is part of the Sutter Health network’s multi-billion-dollar plan to improve, replace or build dozens of Northern California community-based outpatient care centers and hospitals over the next 10 years.
Sutter Gould Medical Foundation has care centers in Stanislaus, San Joaquin and Merced counties, including Modesto, Stockton, Lodi Tracy and Los Banos. SGMF is part of Sutter Health, a family of not-for-profit hospitals and physician organizations that share resources and expertise to advance health care quality.
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