Residents of Moore will soon see construction activity on the Moore Medical Center site at 4th Street and Telephone Road. Norman Regional Health System Vice President Richie Splitt says now that his team has had a chance to incorporate community input on the redesign of the building, they are ready to move forward with construction. Splitt expects dirt work to begin in October and says that if the weather cooperates the project should be complete in around 15-to-18 months.
“We hope to have that building completed around the March or April (2016) time frame so we will be actually ahead of schedule,” said Spiltt. “We talked about the fall of 2016 opening and at this point we think we’ll be open in the spring of 2016.”
The four-story, 125,000 square foot building will feature a fully-functioning emergency room that will be open 24-hours-a-day, physical therapy facilities, laboratory and imaging services, and office space for doctors. In addition to state-of-the-art technology, Splitt says the building is also designed with Oklahoma’s dangerous weather in mind.
“The structure itself will have a FEMA-rated safe room and around that safe room we’ll have some special EF5-rated glass that will withstand up to 250-mph winds and debris,” said Splitt.
“That creates a safe zone around that safe room. So we’re very confident about that structure and what it will provide to our patients and our staff who are in that facility.”
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