Headache Care Center begins $3.5 million project

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Chesterfield Village is welcoming "a quiet little company here in Springfield," said Kenny Cox, vice president of operations of Headache Care Center/Primary Care Network.|ret||ret||tab|

Headache Care Center broke ground Aug. 4 on a two-acre parcel of land that will support a 22,500-square-foot building with a project budget of about $3.5 million. |ret||ret||tab|

Headache Care Center/Primary Care Network will relocate to combine three rented offices in Springfield into one centralized location, Cox said.|ret||ret||tab|

After about six months of research by Ken Schwab and Deb Scott, commercial real estate agents with Wilhoit Properties, the site just south of Empire Bank in Chesterfield Village was purchased by IH Holdings LLC, which comprises primary shareholder Dr. Roger Cady and three other investors.|ret||ret||tab|

"Chesterfield Village was a good choice with its access to James River and Kansas Expressway and availability in the Chesterfield development," Scott said. The land will be accessed from Overland Street, and it has Kansas Expressway frontage. The address will be assigned during the construction process. The anticipated completion date is June 2004. |ret||ret||tab|

The land was purchased from Dearborn Development through listing agent R.B. Murray Company, and the general contractor for the project is Kenny Ross with Morelock-Ross Builders. The lead architect is Bill Woody of Marshall Waters Woody. Terri West with Interior Planning Consultants is the interior designer and Russ Marquart with Empire Bank was loan officer for the project.|ret||ret||tab|

"What we do is not really well known in Springfield. We do three things: we have our clinic, the Headache Care Center, (where) we see patients who need a specialist's touch to be able to manage; we have a research arm where we do clinical research and manage research projects outside of Springfield; and we also have an education arm that does (continuing medical education) for physicians. We will actually educate (more than) 20,000 physicians this year alone," Cox said. |ret||ret||tab|

The primary focus of Headache Care Center/Primary Care Network is the education portion of the organization, which began in 1997 and has a teaching staff of more than 100 professionals nationwide. This year they will conduct 150 large-format conferences with 100-plus attendees and 1,000 small-format conferences with fewer than 20 attendees. The clinic and research operations of Headache Care Center/Primary Care Network started in 1996. |ret||ret||tab|

In 2002, Headache Care Center had 35 employees and Cox anticipates that number will near 65 once the new facility is open. The center has six providers who are made up of four doctors, a psychologist and a nurse practitioner. Cady oversees the research portion of the business, and Dr. Curt Schreiber oversees the medical programs including presentations on a variety of topics such as depression, asthma, pain management and headache.|ret||ret||tab|

With the new building the number of exam rooms will double from seven to 14, Cox said. |ret||ret||tab|

About 10 percent to 12 percent of the population suffers from headaches, but only about 50 percent of those people seek treatment, Cox said. One of the focuses of the new building will be patient education.|ret||ret||tab|

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