Medical Facilities Add New Digs in Dickson
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Horizon Medical Center celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 - and now it’s making room for new technology and a new generation of medicine. The medical center is establishing a brand-new campus on 66 acres along Highway 46, near Interstate 40.
Known as Natchez Medical Park, the campus already houses one building that includes a Sarah Cannon Cancer Center on one side and a Natchez Imaging facility on the other.
“Our old hospital building continues to serve the community well, but the eventual goal is to keep expanding Natchez Medical Park and move everything there by around the year 2012,” says John Marshall, CEO of Horizon Medical Center and Natchez Medical Park.
Marshall says the next expansion to Natchez Medical Park is scheduled to begin in late 2009.
“We will be breaking ground on a new ambulatory surgery center for outpatients and will construct some medical offices as part of that phase,” he says. “Then a couple years later, the final stage of construction will be implemented to build an inpatient tower. Once the tower is constructed, all equipment and services from Horizon Medical Center will be moved to Natchez Medical Park.”
While all of these plans unfold, Horizon Medical Center continues to be a leader in medical innovation and treatment for the five counties it serves. For example, one of the surgeons at HMC is trained to perform an innovative balloon sinuplasty procedure, whereby the surgeon relieves a patient’s sinus passages by running angioplasty tubes through the gums instead of the nose.
“We also have a surgeon who does a procedure on the lower back called an axial lift, to separate vertebrae that have been compressing together,” says Betty Weaver, director of marketing for Horizon Medical Center and Natchez Medical Park. “Horizon Medical Center certainly has high-skilled surgeons on staff.”
Dickson County has other top-notch medical facilities available to the public, including Dickson Medical Associates, which opened a new, 83,000-square-foot facility along Highway 46 in spring 2009. The multi-specialty practice provides the latest in medical technology, with an emphasis on patient convenience and satisfaction.
“We have a beautiful, scenic quality of life here in Dickson County, so medical facilities are able to recruit top doctors and physicians who don’t want to live in big metropolitan cities,” Betty Weaver says.
“This whole region west of Nashville is growing, and so is the quality of medical care that residents here are receiving.”
Story by Kevin Litwin
