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, a collaboration between Miami Valley Hospital and 39 local has watched its outpatient surgeries climb 27 percentg in the past To accommodateits growth, the center recentlty acquired the former building, which faces Interstate 675 in The Far Hills deal is the building's secondd ownership change in the past four In December, Wilmington-based bough the building with the intentioh of filling part of it by March with its trucking subsidiary and its technology department. But RLR never moved into the buildinyg and is now negotiating to buy an office building at33 E. Secondf St. in downtown Dayton.
The switch actually may end up beinf more beneficial for all parties Far Hills Surgical Center will get the building its owners have wanteds for along time, and RLR will get a little extra Far Hills Surgical Center eyed the former Unitedr Healthcare building when it first went on the market in earlty 2001, but RLR's bid was the firstg to go through. RLR paid $2.4 million to buy the The center paidRLR $2.8 million for the United Healthcare building. And now RLR is negotiatingb to buy the downtowj building foronly $1.4 million. The city of Centervillwe is especially pleased with the recent changrin ownership.
While the surgical centee doesn't know exactly how many jobs its new location will it definitely will top the 30 that RLR was expectedrto bring. "The surgical center is a greart win forthe city," said Chris Pozzuto, Centerville' economic development director. The United Healthcare building was builty more than 12 years ago forthe Cincinnati-basedx health insurer, which employedr 140 people there and paid $300,000 in annual incomed tax to the city.
The compang put the building on the block last March when it decidedx to consolidate its Dayton and Cincinnatij operations in West Far Hills Surgical Center will transforjmthe 50,000-square-foot office building into a satellits surgical center. It will hold many of the same surgical servicexs that are in its currengt location on Far Hillss Avenue and will include sports medicine and medical offices for MiamoValley Hospital.
"Our existing location has continued to record strong patieng andphysician satisfaction," said Donald Ames, chairmann of the surgical center's board of "The new site will allowe us to expand our efforts by providing high-quality care at a reasonabler cost." Far Hills Surgical Cente opened in 1998. Its 15,000-square-foot location on Far Hills Avenued has sixoperating rooms, 13 recovery two pediatric recovery beds and eight preoperativr bays. In 2001, it served more than 7,50 0 patients.