Notre Dame Ambulatory Center to be sold to Blackstone Valley Community Health Care

THE NOTRE Dame Ambulatory Center will be sold by Memorial Hospital this year to Blackstone Valley Community Health Care. / COURTESY BLACKSTONE VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE
THE NOTRE Dame Ambulatory Center will be sold by Memorial Hospital this year to Blackstone Valley Community Health Care. / COURTESY BLACKSTONE VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE

CENTRAL FALLS – The Notre Dame Ambulatory Center will be sold by Memorial Hospital this year to Blackstone Valley Community Health Care, allowing the Pawtucket-based health care organization to expand its dental, physical and mental health care services.
The sale of the three-story facility at 1000 Broad St., announced Thursday, will close in September for $720,000. Blackstone Valley Community Health Care will then invest $5 million in a renovation, to include a new dental suite made possible through a grant from Delta Dental of Rhode Island. The new dental facilities will be called Delta Dental Clinic at Blackstone Valley Community Health Care.
Memorial Hospital will lease back space in the building for its ambulatory and urgent care units, as well as diagnostic imaging services and physical and occupational medicine programs.
According to a Blackstone Valley Community Health Care officials, the sale is a part of a plan to create a neighborhood health station on the property, where Central Falls residents can find care for physical, dental and mental health needs, as well as wellness programs that could include a pool and gym.
“The long-term vision for the building will be to create a place where 90 percent of the health and wellness needs of the community can be met,” said BVCHC Executive Director Raymond Lavoie, in a statement. The building is centrally located and has ample parking, he noted.
BVCHC will continue to operate in its space at 9 Chestnut St. until November 2016, once renovations and modifications to the new building are complete. No decision has been made as yet as to whether BVCHC will then lease or sell its existing space, according to Lavoie.
Once it moves into the expanded space, it will add 11 new clinicians to its staff. With the increased capacity, Blackstone Valley Community Health Care expects to accommodate another 6,000 patients annually. The community health care service now attends to 4,560 patients at its existing Chestnut Street location.

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