Mary Lanning Healthcare will celebrate a milestone in the construction of its new Medical Office Building (MOB) next week as a final steel beam is lifted into place.
The Beam Signing Ceremony — at noon on Wednesday, March 23 — will involve members of the MLH Executive Team, MLH Board of Trustees and representatives of Chief Construction, Hastings College and Bryan College of Health Sciences. These individuals will be on hand to sign the beam before it takes its place in the skeleton of the construction, which is an addition to the current Medical Services Building.
Mark Callahan, MLH Chief Operating Officer, said the project, which will double the size of the current building, broke ground in October 2021 and is ahead of schedule.
The project will add 64,803 square feet to the 63,957-square-foot building. The building currently houses an ophthalmology clinic, the MLH Wound Center, Nebraska Heart Institute, Bryan Heart — Mary Lanning Cardiology, several MLH clinics, MLH Diabetes Program, MLH Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, the MLH Education Department and School of Radiologic Technology. Financing for the project was kept local with Five Points Bank, Callahan said. Once the addition is complete, the building will be called the Mary Lanning Healthcare Medical Office Building (MOB).
The Bryan College of Health Sciences will occupy the third floor of the addition.
Bryan and Hastings College have worked together to raise money for the program, and have partnered so students will take courses at Hastings College and at Bryan in the MOB at Mary Lanning Healthcare.