$4 million clinic planned

Advanced Healthcare SC is working on plans for a $4 million, 20,000-square-foot   primary care and specialty medical clinic on West Mequon Road in the village   of Germantown to meet a growing client base in the Washington County community.

Dr. Eugene Monroe, president of Advanced Health Care, said the clinic would   be on a 17-acre site on Mequon Road, about one mile east of Highway 45. In addition,   Advanced Healthcare executives are considering relocating their corporate headquarters   for the 250-member physician group to a new office building that could be built   on the site behind the medical clinic over the next several years. The corporate   headquarters, which has about 200 employees, is currently housed in leased space   in Germantown at W177 N9856 Rivercrest Drive.

Monroe said the clinic’s management would decide within the next year whether   to relocate the corporate offices.

Currently, Monroe said about 40 percent of Germantown residents are served   by Advanced Healthcare physicians, but yet they have to travel to other communities   to visit one of the group’s 13 health clinics. Advanced Healthcare’s clinics   nearest to Germantown are in Menomonee Falls, Mequon and a site that serves   the Hubertus-Richfield area.

“We really wanted to offer the residents of Germantown a convenient place   for their health-care needs,” Monroe said. “There is also a lot of   growth occurring in Germantown and the surrounding communities that we want   to be able to serve in the future.”

Health-care option

Monroe said other clinic patients travel on Highway 41 to and from work in   Milwaukee each day from other communities in Washington and Dodge counties and   the new clinic would offer them a convenient option.

“This is a growing part of the metropolitan area and we want to be able   to offer our patients the services they need,” he said.

Advanced Healthcare is the fourth medical organization in recent months to   develop plans for a facility in Germantown, which has seen a huge increase in   population over the past decade. In early August, Columbia St. Mary’s opened   a 23,000-square-foot primary care clinic near the intersection of Mequon and   Pilgrim roads.

Six or seven physicians and an undetermined number of support staff will work   at the clinic, which would feature X-ray and laboratory services in addition   to primary care services. The group has received preliminary approval from the   village of Germantown Plan Commission but still needs final approval of more   detailed building plans, Monroe said.

The project is expected to be put out to bid in the next several months. Construction   is slated to begin in spring of 2004, with the clinic being completed in the   fall of 2004.

Advanced Healthcare is also building a $7 million, 40,000-square-foot addition   to its East Mequon Clinic, 12203 N. Corporate Parkway in Mequon.