In the next few weeks, tenants will be moving into the recently completed Kyle Medical Plaza 1 near Seton Medical Center Hays off Interstate 35. (Photo by Kim Hilsenbeck)
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Kyle’s first outpatient surgery center is set to open this fall.
Hays Surgery Center will feature five operating rooms in nearly 13,000 square feet of medical office space. Handling operations such as general orthopedics and procedures, urology, gynecology, general surgery, weight-loss surgery, spine and pain-management procedures, the center says it has lined up commitments from a number of area doctors who will handle cases there.
The center is owned by local area surgeons in partnership with Austin-based Arise Healthcare.
“This center will bring a myriad of outpatient procedures to Hays County residents so they can receive care on their home turf,” Jared Leger, registered nurse, CEO and managing partner of Arise Healthcare, said in a news release. “We opened our doors with a similar facility about a year ago in Cedar Park and have received an absolutely phenomenal reception. We have similar high hopes for our Kyle project.”
Hays Surgery Center has signed a long-term lease to become a tenant in Kyle Crossing Medical Center, a 42,000-square-foot, $10 million medical office space project under development by Onair Development. The building, presently under construction, sits on 3.5 acres off the southeast corner of Interstate 35 and Kyle Parkway – across from the city’s only hospital, Seton Medical Center Hays.
In addition to the new surgery center, other tenants slated to join in the building include Austin Pain Associates, Gilcrease Medical Group, The Podiatry Group of South Texas, Strickland Physical Therapy and Kyle Crossing Imaging.
More than 70 percent of surgeries in the United States are performed in the outpatient setting, according to the Texas Ambulatory Surgery Center Society. More than 1.3 million surgeries and procedures were performed in Texas ASCs from mid-2010 through mid-2011, according to a report by the Texas Department of State Health Services.
