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Summit Health's latest medical facility gets off the ground in Greencastle

Amber South
Chambersburg Public Opinion

ANTRIM TOWNSHIP - A new medical office building is rising off U.S. 11 south of Greencastle. 

Construction is well underway at the Greencastle Medical Office Building, located on Antrim Commons Drive across from Sheetz off Exit 3 of Interstate 81. Metal beams and concrete form the 45,000-square-foot building's three stories. 

The approximately $15 million building is expected to be completed in fall of 2019, a few months later than initially planned, a Summit Health spokesperson said. 

It will house a walk-in care facility as well as primary care and several specialty care practices; to include orthopedics, podiatry, ear nose and throat, OB/GYN, lab, select imaging services, occupational health, and behavioral health.

Summit Health is building a $15 million medical office building in the Antrim Commons Business Park at Interstate 81 Exit 3, off Ebberts Spring Court. Construction, started in June by Brechbill & Helman Construction Co. Inc., on the three-story medical building that will be located across from Sheetz convenience store. It will offer: Urgent care, medical lab, orthopedics, podiatry and imagery, including a mobile magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on the first floor. Physical therapy and timeshare space on the second floor. Women’s care, primary care and ear, nose & throat on the third floor. The 45,000-square-foot building will also have a partial basement. About 80 staff and physicians will work supporting the clinical practices and testing services in the building, according to John Massimilla, Summit Health COO. Massimilla said he anticipates that the center will open in June 2019.

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The primary care and and walk-in care centers will move to this building from Grove Medical Center, located on Eastern Avenue on the other end of town, a Summit Health official previously said. Lab and some imaging services are expected to continue at the other office. 

About 80 physicians and staff will work out of the new building. 

Brechbill & Helman Construction Co. Inc. is responsible for construction. Antrim Design Collaborative, Paragon Engineering, Providence Engineering, and Frederick Seibert & Associates are also part of the project team. An official ground-breaking was held in May. 

Summit Health, which recently became part of the regional health care organization WellSpan Health, received a $250,000 donation toward the new building earlier this month from the Paul and Anna Shockey Family Foundation. The foundation is a fund in the Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation.

Ken and Bonnie Shockey (center) present a donation of $250,000 from the Paul and Anna Shockey Foundation to Pat O’Donnell (left) executive vice president of WellSpan Health and president and CEO of Summit Health, and Barbara Rossini (right), vice president for planning and community relations.

The Shockeys’ son, Ken, and his wife, Bonnie, presented the check to Pat O’Donnell, executive vice president of WellSpan Health and president and CEO of Summit Health, and Barbara Rossini, vice president for planning and community relations on Nov. 8 at the site of the future building.

The physical therapy area in the new medical office building will be named for the Paul and Anna Shockey Family Foundation.

“We depend on the support of our community on projects such as this one. We are so grateful to the Shockey family for their generous support of this project. Summit Health has been caring for members of the Greencastle community for years, and we are proud to not only be continuing that care, but expanding it by bringing more specialty services to this community. Improving access to health care is a high priority of our organization, and this building will improve access," O'Donnell said. 

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The Greencastle Medical Office building will join 170 patient care centers currently in the WellSpan network, which serves Adams, York, Lancaster, Lebanon and, now, Franklin counties. 

Summit Health facilities are to continue operating as normal for patients. All facilities will take on the WellSpan name over the next few months, said O'Donnell, who will continue leading services in Franklin County. 

“We want to emphasize to the Greencastle community that we remain committed to this project. Our new partner, WellSpan Health, is thrilled and supportive of this project. Together, we will continue to build services and care in the Greencastle community and throughout Franklin County.”