Jessamine Medical Center expansion on track

March 27, 2008

An expansion of Lexington Clinic's Jessamine Medical Center, which will include new services, should be finished by early summer.

'We're determined to be finished by the end of June,' said Dr. Andrew Henderson, CEO of Lexington Clinic, the group practice with 200 providers in 30 specialties throughout Central Kentucky.

The current clinic building at 110 Village Parkway has 15,000 square feet. The expansion, which began in late fall, will add 10,000 square feet, Henderson said.

The Nicholasville clinic offers lab and radiology services, mammography, neurology, urology and gastroenterology. The multimillion-dollar expansion will add space for new MRI, CT and ultrasound capabilities, plus vascular surgery.

'Vascular surgery will deal with blockages of blood vessels in the legs and arms, vein problems, those sorts of things,' Henderson said.

Last year the clinic added weekend hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturdays and 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sundays. On weekdays it is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The clinic serves patients in Jessamine, Garrard, Boyle and southern Fayette counties.

'We watch and listen and see the difficulty that patients have traveling to Lexington to have some of these more complicated, difficult studies performed,' Henderson said. 'We felt the need for our patients to not have to make those travels and trips. ... We take care of them there, and they don't have to fight the Nicholasville Road traffic.'

Henderson's brother, Dr. Artie Henderson, works in the Jessamine Medical Center and is president of Lexington Clinic's board of directors.

Jessamine Medical Center has been in Nicholasville since 1984. Lexington Clinic, founded in 1920, also operates offices in Corbin, Georgetown, and Richmond as well as Lexington.

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