Only 18 months after its grand opening, Forest Park Medical Center Southlake is preparing for the opening of its 82,000-square-foot Medical Office Building.
Charles Nasem, CEO of FPMCS, said the $20 million four-story building will have 30 tenants after it is completely leased out with the first tenant moving in early 2015.
"The building will have some of our partner physicians in it, a spa-like women's imagining center and an urgent care clinic," he said. "We are 50 percent leased right now."
The office building is connected to the hospital on two levels and shares the four-level parking garage.
Nasem said the new building is a part of a master plan that was designed before the hospital was built.
"We have a master plan that doubles the size of the hospital," he said. "That doesn't necessarily mean we are doing that anytime soon. It's just there for us when we do decide to expand so that everything will be strategically planned."
This year, the hospital also created a Spine Care Institute, which consists of 12 physicians who specialize in spine, disc and nerve conditions.
"It's basically a one-stop shop for those patients," Nasem said. "They will manage the patient from start to end and that includes the surgery, rehab, chiropractic sessions and everything else that is involved. They don't have to worry about being referred to multiple doctors anymore."