CMH set to break ground on $3M Willard clinic

Citizens Memorial Hospital plans to expand its footprint into Greene County with a groundbreaking for a new medical clinic in Willard.

The public is invited to attend the 11 a.m. groundbreaking ceremony tomorrow for the $3 million Willard Medical Center, 502 S. Miller Road, according to a news release. The 8,300-square-foot facility, set to open this fall, is next to Apple Market in the Green Meadows Shopping Center.

The project’s general contractor is BP Builders LLC, with Facility Design Group LLC serving as architect.

The clinic is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which announced in October a $3 million low-interest loan for CMH Properties, a subsidiary of the Bolivar-based rural health care system. The loan funded the purchase of the land and clinic construction, according to past Springfield Business Journal reporting.

Willard Medical Center is designed to include family medicine, a walk-in clinic, behavioral health services, obstetrics, pediatrics, women’s health, digital X-ray and a laboratory. Physical and occupational therapy will be offered in a separate facility close to the clinic, according to the release. CMH spokesperson Tamera Heitz-Peek said this morning the health care system is planning to open the therapy clinic in January 2022, but a location is still under consideration.

The Willard clinic will be the 14th medical center for CMH and its first in Greene County. It operates additional family medicine, pediatric and walk-in clinics in Ash Grove, Bolivar, Buffalo, El Dorado Springs, Greenfield, Humansville, Osceola, Pleasant Hope and Stockton.