Vanderbilt Health breaks ground on 6,000-square-foot new imaging facility

Vanderbilt Health and healthcare real estate firm Oman-Gibson Associates broke ground on a new 6,000-square-foot imaging center on Thursday.

The facility is located on a 0.55-acre site in the Nashville, Tennessee, neighborhood of Bellevue. Vanderbilt is relocating its Belle Meade Imaging outpost to this new site, where it plans to offer services including MRI, CT, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, X-ray and mammography.

Oman-Gibson also recently work with Vanderbilt to convert a bowling alley into a 27,500-square-foot renal dialysis treatment facility in Nashville, the two said in an Aug. 17 announcement.

“This latest collaboration with OGA reflects our shared commitment to innovation and enhanced patient experiences,” said Laura Beth Brown, SVP of Vanderbilt Health Services. “The new Bellevue location will offer advanced specialty imaging technologies and further the health and well-being of west Nashville residents.”

Oman-Gibson Associates, which also is based in Nashville, said it expects the project to be completed by early 2025.

Marty Stempniak

Marty Stempniak has covered healthcare since 2012, with his byline appearing in the American Hospital Association's member magazine, Modern Healthcare and McKnight's. Prior to that, he wrote about village government and local business for his hometown newspaper in Oak Park, Illinois. He won a Peter Lisagor and Gold EXCEL awards in 2017 for his coverage of the opioid epidemic. 

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