Medical Plaza Second Floor Opens for Patient Care

  • January 03, 2020
Registered Nurse Mandy Olson and OB/GYN Dr. Emily Abele move medical supplies in to one of the new exam rooms on the second floor of the Medical Plaza. Starting today, OB/GYN and dermatology patients will visit providers on the second floor. Brookings Health System recently finished the Medical Plaza’s second floor with exam rooms and offices to accommodate the growing medical services offered by Avera Medical Group Specialty Care. General surgery, urology, ENT, orthopedics and now podiatry patients will be seen on the Medical Plaza’s first floor.
Registered Nurse Mandy Olson and OB/GYN Dr. Emily Abele move medical supplies in to one of the new exam rooms on the second floor of the Medical Plaza. Starting today, OB/GYN and dermatology patients will visit providers on the second floor. Brookings Health System recently finished the Medical Plaza’s second floor with exam rooms and offices to accommodate the growing medical services offered by Avera Medical Group Specialty Care. General surgery, urology, ENT, orthopedics and now podiatry patients will be seen on the Medical Plaza’s first floor.

The second floor of Brookings Health System’s Medical Plaza opened for OB/GYN and dermatology patient care today.

This past August Brookings Health System began finishing the Medical Plaza’s second floor with exam rooms and offices to accommodate the growing medical services offered by Avera Medical Group Specialty Care, the tenant who now occupies both floors of the medical office building.

“Part of the reason we built the Medical Plaza and undertook the hospital expansion and renovation project was to attract specialty providers to Brookings. As such, we knew we would need to accommodate future growth,” said CEO Jason Merkley. “It’s fantastic that we’ve been so successful in attracting talented providers, including orthopedic, ENT, urology and gynecology surgeons, in only three short years.”

When Brookings Health System opened the 30,000 square-foot Medical Plaza in 2016, the building opened with a finished first floor and a shelled-in second floor. The second floor shell made the Medical Plaza ready for expansion when needed.

With the second floor complete, Avera Medical Group Specialty Care has relocated the offices and exam space for OB/GYN and dermatology services to the second floor. The first floor still houses general surgery, urology, orthopedics and ENT. In addition, podiatry services have moved from the Avera clinic located at 400 22nd Ave. to the first floor of the Medical Plaza.

“Each floor should be able to accommodate about eight to ten providers,” said Merkley. “With 12 different specialty providers already on board, that gives some extra space for growth and to continue recruiting specialists to Brookings.”

The Medical Plaza physician office building gives hospital-based clinicians easy hospital access to better care for patients. Located at 310 22nd Ave., the Medical Plaza connects directly to Brookings Hospital. Learn more at brookingshealth.org/MedicalPlaza.

About Brookings Health System

Brookings Health System, located in Brookings, South Dakota, includes a 49-bed hospital, the 79-bed The Neighborhoods at Brookview nursing home, Brookhaven Estates senior living apartments, Yorkshire Eye Clinic, and medical clinics in Arlington, White and Volga, South Dakota. It is a non-profit, city-owned facility that offers the community a full range of inpatient, outpatient, emergency and extended care services. Brookings Hospital provides local access to doctors in Brookings and offers robotic da Vinci surgery and Mako robotic-arm assisted procedures, making it one of the premier rural community hospitals in South Dakota. For more information about the services offered at Brookings Health System, please call (605) 696-9000 or visit us on the Web at brookingshealth.org.