MidState Medical Center in Meriden and a group of nine gastroenterologists who are members of the hospital’s medical staff have applied to the state to open a new outpatient surgery facility in Wallingford for gastroenterological services that include colonoscopies and endoscopies.
The proposed Wallingford Endoscopy Center LLC – a joint venture of the hospital, which will own 51 percent, and MidState Endoscopy Center Holdings LLC, a new company that will be owned by the nine physicians with a collective 49 percent stake in the center – is slated to go inside the Wallingford Family Health Center at 863 N. Main St.
The hospital holds the master lease for the building, according to the certificate of need for the center filed last week with the state Department of Public Health.
The estimated cost to build out the space for the center is about $2.8 million.
State reviews typically take about six months, meaning the applicants – Wallingford Endoscopy Center LLC and MidState Medical Center – would hope to receive regulatory approval by about May with opening of the facility sometime in 2018, according to Barbara Durdy, director, strategic planning for Hartford HealthCare.
MidState Medical Center is part of the Hartford HealthCare network.
The application says the facility would have three procedure rooms, but open with two. The space for the third room would be built out, but not finished until business dictated.
“Healthcare reform has necessitated a realignment of the traditional interactions between hospitals and physicians through the creation of new models to accelerate change and bring higher quality services at a lower cost to patients and payers alike,” the application says. “Significant savings accrue to both the payer and the patient when the gastroenterology services are provided in an outpatient surgical setting.”
