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Pediatric clinic moves to former school site

Nationwide Children’s Hospital doctors will see patients at new venue.

Nationwide Children's Hospital and Pediatric Associates will open next August. The center will house the children's hospital's Springfield ChildLab laboratory services and Pediatric Associates of Springfield Inc.

Bill Lackey/Staff Photo Nationwide Children's Hospital and Pediatric Associates will open next August. The center will house the children's hospital's Springfield ChildLab laboratory services and Pediatric Associates of Springfield Inc.

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By Bethany Bruner, Staff Writer 10:33 PM Thursday, December 29, 2011

SPRINGFIELD — Local children will have increased access to Nationwide Children’s Hospital doctors at new speciality clinics the hospital will hold at its relocated lab facilities.

Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Pediatric Associates will open next August at 1640 N. Limestone St. The center will house the children’s hospital’s Springfield ChildLab laboratory services and Pediatric Associates of Springfield Inc.

Part of the Limestone Center development project, the new 20,000 square foot building is currently under construction on the north side of the site of the former Roosevelt Middle School.

Breanne Taylor, real estate manager for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, said Springfield ChildLab, currently located on Lexington Avenue, will relocate to the new development.

“Due to other hospital services moving, we needed a new space,” Taylor said.

Nationwide Children’s Hospital is planning to start offering sub-speciality clinic services a few times a month at the new lab for Springfield children, Taylor said. Doctors from the Columbus-based hospital will come to the Springfield office to see patients.

Taylor said hematology and plastic surgery clinics are going to be offered for right now, but the hospital hopes to add speciality clinics like ear, nose and throat and pulmonary services in the future. Surgeries will still be performed in Columbus.

The ChildLab has four or five full-time employees and one or two new positions may be added with the new space, Taylor said.

Nationwide will also sublease space to Pediatric Associates of Springfield, which will relocate its offices from Lexington Avenue to the new development.

David Lamb, spokesman for Springfield Regional Medical Center, said the relocation doesn’t affect services provided by the hospital.

“If that helps them serve pediatric patients, that’s good news for them,” Lamb said. “We still provide the same care.”

A spokeswoman for Dayton Children’s Medical Center said the hospital did not want to comment on something they did not have knowledge of.

Marlene Daubenspeck, director of personnel for Pediatric Associates of Springfield, said she could not comment on the relocation Thursday.

PGI Development Inc. is overseeing the development of the project, which will have four buildings, two for retail and restaurant space and two for office buildings.

Pete Patel, PGI’s president, said there will be 5,000 square feet open in the children’s hospital building to house another tenant.

Mary Wells, building projects coordinator for Springfield, said Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Pediatric Associates filed a permit with the city for the interior construction.

Patel said the local Social Security Administration offices have signed a lease to move into a second building on the south side of the site. Ground will be broken on that building in the spring with hopes of having it ready for occupation in October 2012.

The assistant manager of the Social Security Administration office did not return calls for comment Thursday.

The location has been key to drawing the tenants the Limestone Center development has signed.

“Finding this kind of property in the core of Springfield allowed these tenants to be in the center of the city,” Patel said.

Two retail and restaurant buildings will be built on the west side of the site on North Limestone Street. Patel said PGI hopes to break ground on those buildings in the spring and have them ready to be occupied by October 2012.

No tenants have been signed for those properties, Patel said.

The east side of the site has two vacant lots for future development projects, according to Patel.

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