Baptist announces plan for Madison County site

Baptist Health Systems hopes to break ground in July on a four-story medical arts complex near the intersection of Mississippi 463 and Highland Colony Parkway in Madison.

The building, which hospital officials say will be the first phase of what they hope will include a full-service hospital, child care center and emergency medical facility, will house doctors' offices, an outpatient surgery center, rehabilitation services and a diagnostic imaging center.

The 81,000-square foot building is slated for a fall 2006 opening. More than half the building has already been leased to physicians specializing in pediatrics, fertility issues, pulmonology, orthopedics, urology, obstetrics/gynecology and plastic surgery.