Prisma Health breaks ground on new Northeast Columbia Medical Park

COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — Prisma Health held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Northeast Columbia Medical Park, located just off of Interstate-77 and Killian Road.

Michael Bundy, the CEO of the Prisma Health Midlands Market, says the new 134,000-square-foot facility will include four operating rooms, 110 examination rooms, an outpatient pharmacy for easier access to medication for patients, and more.

“It’s gonna have imaging modalities for diagnostic work, across the full spectrum of care. We’ll have access to both primary care, and specialty care, and even sub-specialty care. You’ll have centers of excellence in cardiovascular care in orthopedics. All out here in Northeast Columbia. It’s gonna be just an amazing, amazing thing that’s come to fruition for our community,” Bundy says.

The medical park is strategically placed to better serve residents of the Northeast, Blythewood, and Winnsboro.

Councilwoman Gretchen Barron shared a personal experience of why having the medical park in the area is much needed.

“Many years ago when my oldest son was young, he had an allergic reaction, and I’m driving down from Blythewood to Richland, watching him go through an allergic reaction in the rearview mirror of my car, was a traumatic experience for me, but noting now that we can drive 3 to 5 minutes and have care, is amazing. Yes this is something that when I think about services, I want people to have services that are in their community. What greater thing! You shop in your community, a lot of us worship in our community, so why can’t we go to the doctor in our community?” Barron says.

Dr. Patrice Weiss is the Chief Medical Officer for Prisma Medical Group and also a practicing OBGYN. She says the new facility will have some of those services as well, stressing that access should never be a deterrent for patients to get the care that they need.

“Any opportunity we have where we can go out into the community and meet our patients where they are, and where they live, is really part of our Prisma values,” Weiss says.

The $128 million project is set to open in the Fall of 2025.