On August 11, Clark Memorial Health in collaboration with Norton Healthcare and LifePoint Health, broke ground on a new outpatient care center in Jeffersonville, Indiana. A small group of leaders from the hospital, Norton Healthcare and LifePoint gathered to celebrate the first dig marking the beginning of construction for the facility, made possible by a $17.2 million investment from LifePoint Health. The nearly 35,000-square-foot outpatient facility will have 6 emergency exam rooms, a trauma room, CT scanner, lab and physician practice space. The free-standing emergency department will be open 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, with no appointment necessary. The imaging center's hours of operation will be 8 hours a day, Monday through Friday, and will provide x-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, screening mammography, DEXA scans and echo. Hospital officials anticipate that the center will hire approximately 45 full-time employees in the first year. Additionally, the facility will house three separate suites for the primary care office, behavioral health services and medi-spa. The physician clinic and medi-spa will be managed by Clark Medical Group. This practice will also focus on partnering with businesses in the area by offering an employer-based clinic model in addition to seeing patients within a traditional practice model. The facility is expected to open in 2022.