Shawnee Mission Medical Center to Purchase Land in Southern Johnson County

MERRIAM, Kan. – Shawnee Mission Medical Center (SMMC) has announced its intention to purchase 42 acres of land in southern Overland Park for a future health care facility of up to 400 beds and 240,000 square feet of medical office space. The land, bound by 159th Street, 167th Street, Antioch Road and 69 Highway, is part of the Village of Overland Park, a 300 acre master-planned community being developed by Price Brothers Development. Plans for the area also include a destination town-center retail project, offices, a hotel and residential space.

“As our community grows, our goal is to continue providing services to meet the expanded health care needs of our patients, in convenient locations close to their homes,” said Samuel H. Turner, Sr., SMMC President and Chief Executive Officer. “We look forward to taking the high quality, compassionate services Shawnee Mission Medical Center is known for and providing them with even more ease to current and future residents of southern Johnson County.”

Although the future hospital project is still in the planning stages, it will be developed in a phased approach based on community need beginning with space for outpatient services and physician offices. Construction is not scheduled to begin for at least two years.

SMMC is currently utilizing the phased-development approach in the construction of the Shawnee Mission Outpatient Pavilion at Prairie Star Parkway in western Lenexa, scheduled to open in mid-2008. The facility will feature emergency, imaging and surgical services, as well as physician offices and a medical spa. Plans call for

Shawnee Mission Medical Center (SMMC) is a 383-bed facility with nearly 20,000 inpatient admissions and more than 195,000 outpatient admissions annually. SMMC has the busiest emergency department in Johnson County, the area's first accredited Chest Pain Emergency Center, a nationally recognized Center for Women's Health and delivers more babies each year than any other hospital in the metropolitan area. SMMC employs more than 2,800 local residents and supports an exceptional staff of 700 physicians representing 50 medical specialties, the largest medical staff in Kansas City.

Price Brothers, a family owned real estate investment and development company with extensive holdings in Kansas City, is developing the 300-acre Village of Overland Park project. The Village is designed as a town-center featuring an upscale outdoor shopping center with a department store anchor, cinema, bookstore and fashion-oriented small shops, offices, a hotel and residential uses including single family and multifamily housing along with independent and assisted living components, all designed into an integrated, pedestrian-friendly community.

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