New Singing Hills Mercy Medical Clinic Under Construction
The construction of the new Singing Hills Mercy Medical Clinic is underway near Singing Hills Boulevard in Sioux City.
Once the new 10,000 square foot facility is completed this summer, the Singing Hills Mercy Medical Clinic, which is currently located nearby at 3500 Singing Hills Boulevard, will make the one-block move into its new location on an adjacent street.
The clinic’s current providers, Dr. Richard Kipp and Dr. Heather Longval, will make the move into the new state-of-the-art facility. Dr. Greg Halbur, who is currently seeing patients at the Midtown Mercy Medical Clinic in Sioux City, will also join them at Mercy’s Singing Hills location.
Dr. James Duggan and Glenda DenHerder, ARNP, providers for Mercy Behavioral Care will also move from the Midtown Mercy Medical Clinic to the new Singing Hills location.
Once construction of a new Singing Hills Mercy Medical Clinic is finished, Mercy won’t be leaving the two-year-old medical office building at 3500 Singing Hills Boulevard. Mercy Business Health Services and Mercy Urgent Care will remain in their current location in the east half of that building. Mercy plans to offer outpatient therapy services in the other portion of the building where the Singing Hills Mercy Medical Clinic is now located.
“A medical campus is taking shape from 3500 to 3600 Singing Hills Boulevard,” said Brian Monsma, executive director of Mercy Medical Services, a partner to Mercy Medical Center— Sioux City. “As that area of Sioux City continues to grow, we are very pleased to expand the availability of medical services where healthcare consumers have easy access to them.”
“The new Singing Hills Mercy Medical Clinic will accommodate a rapidly growing practice. We are essentially doubling the size of the clinic. We also know three physicians still won’t be enough in that location.”
“To that end, Mercy Medical Services is actively recruiting family practice physicians in the Sioux City area. That aggressive recruitment illustrates that Mercy is fully committed to improving the ready availability of primary care services by expanding and strengthening our clinic network,” Monsma added.
Monsma said the City of Sioux City was instrumental in keeping the family practice medical clinic in Sioux City, and encouraged the expansion of services in the area by supporting Mercy’s application to the Iowa Department of Economic Development for targeted jobs withholding tax credits.
The total investment for the new Singing Hills Mercy Medical Clinic and the renovation of the existing medical office building at 3500 Singing Hills Boulevard to accommodate Mercy Outpatient Therapy Services approaches $3 million.
Mercy Medical Services owns or manages 28 family practice medical clinics and 8 specialty clinics in western Iowa and eastern Nebraska. Mercy also owns Oakland Mercy Hospital in Oakland, Neb. and Baum Harmon Mercy Hospital in Primghar, Iowa, and manages Hawarden Community Hospital in Hawarden, Iowa, and Pender Community Hospital in Pender, Neb.
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