New SSM Health clinic to open on Madison's South Side next month - Madison.com
Reception desks at the $75 million SSM Health South Madison Campus, to open on Fish Hatchery Road next month, incorporated black walnut previously on the property.
Roof-top solar panels will help generate electrical energy for SSM Health's new clinic on Fish Hatchery Road.
Chemotherapy rooms with a view of Lake Wingra, large spaces for orthopedics and physical therapy, and a vacant floor for future expansion are features of a $75 million SSM Health clinic expected to open next month on Madison's South Side.
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The five-floor, 180,000-square-foot facility at 1211 Fish Hatchery Road, just south of Park Street, should open to patients Feb. 21, SSM Health officials said. It will replace a slightly smaller, three-story clinic built just to the south in 1961, which will be demolished this spring.
SSM Health is planning other phases of a 30-year plan for its property in the area, which may include partnering with a planned Truman Olson housing redevelopment, called "Fourteen02 Park," on long-vacant, city-owned land at 1402 S. Park St.
"We are still in early planning stages for the next steps on what types of facilities, parking, and other needs we have looking at the next several decades," SSM Health spokesperson Lisa Adams said. "We continue to be supportive and open to partnering with other neighborhood developments like Truman Olson."
The new SSM Health clinic at 1211 Fish Hatchery Road will replace one built in 1961 at 1313 Fish Hatchery Road, which will be demolished this spring.
The new clinic, known as the SSM Health South Madison Campus, will offer primary care services such as pediatrics and family medicine; support services such as physical therapy, pharmacy and laboratory services; and specialty health services including orthopedics and cancer care.
The fifth floor includes 39 chemotherapy infusion bays, most offering a view of Lake Wingra. Currently, the existing nearby clinic has 10 chemo rooms and 22 are at a location near Middleton.
Chemotherapy infusion areas on the fifth floor of SSM Health's new clinic offer views of Lake Wingra. Pictured are Dr. Mark Thompson, left, SSM Health Wisconsin Medical Groups president, and Kyle Prochaska, regional director of planning design and construction.
"It's a huge, huge improvement," Dr. Mark Thompson, SSM Health Wisconsin Medical Groups president, said of the new clinic. "It's a great opportunity to continue to care for patients."
Mental health services, which are provided at the clinic that will be demolished, won't be offered at the new site. Behavioral health providers will be at SSM Health clinics on Madison's East and West sides and in Sun Prairie, spokesperson Lisa Adams said. Thompson said many mental health visits are now done through telehealth.
What services might eventually go into the new clinic's vacant fourth floor hasn't been determined, Thompson said.
Floor-to-ceiling windows throughout SSM Health's new clinic offer light-filled spaces for patients and staff.
Construction began in July 2020 after 16 aging, vacant houses on the site were demolished. Materials from the homes, including hardwood flooring, doors, hardware and windows, were salvaged for use elsewhere, Adams said.
SSM Health said it partnered with Findorff and the Urban League of Greater Madison to hire a diverse workforce for the project. At the height of construction, 21% of workers were female, veterans, people of color or people with disabilities, SSM Health said.
For the planned $42 million, six-story, mixed-use Truman Olson development, the city last fall moved away from a tiny, Latino-owned grocery and sought another grocer to be the anchor commercial tenant.
The city had hoped that Luna's Groceries, which operates a small store in the Allied Dunn's Marsh neighborhood on the Southwest Side, would open a second, much bigger, full-service store in the Truman Olson project.
In August, the City Council agreed to spend $4.7 million for a 24,000-square-foot grocery condo to eventually replace an aging Pick 'n Save next door at 1312 S. Park St. The city's purchase was aimed to aid Luna's effort, among aspects of the Truman Olson project.
But the city and Luna's agreed the site is not a good fit for the grocer, and Luna's stepped away from the project while the city worked to identify a new grocery operator to take over the space.
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