From the Ground Up: Select Specialty Hospital-Springfield

Owner/developer: Select Medical Holdings Corp. (NYSE: SEM)
General contractor: Brasfield & Gorrie LLC (Birmingham, Ala.)
Architect: Currence Gray Architects/Taggart Architects (North Little Rock, Ark.)
Engineers: Wilson Surveying Co. Inc., civil; Robbins Engineering PLLC (Little Rock, Ark.), structural; and TME Inc. (Little Rock, Ark.), mechanical, electrical and plumbing
Size: 12,000 square feet
Estimated cost: $2.5 million
Lender: None
Estimated completion date: May 31
Project description: Christine Kern, director of business development for Select Specialty Hospital in Springfield, said the expansion adds 16 beds and a new nursing station at the 44-bed acute care hospital. She said 40 beds are occupied on average. Paul Garrick, project manager with Brasfield & Gorrie LLC, said a cafeteria expansion also is in the works to serve the hospital’s long-term care patients with an average stay of 25 days and an average age of 63.

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