Mercy Health-St. Rita's is making another investment in the Lima community with the construction of a 15-million dollar building.
A graduate medical education facility is being built at the corner of Market and Collett streets. It will house a 250 seat auditorium, classrooms, a library, and a computer center for graduate medical students. Studies show that there could be a major shortage of physicians in the future and Mercy Health-St. Rita's wants to be at the forefront of educating and retaining medical students. They also want the facility to be an asset to the Lima region as well.
"We want the community to be able to use it. We will be training EMS, firefighters, high school students there as well and we want the community to be able to use it for their presentations and programs as well," said Kevin Casey, chief clinical officer.
Casey says Mercy Health corporate will be putting in 10-million dollars and 5-million dollars will be raised locally. There will be an October 28th groundbreaking at 10 a.m. and the public is invited.
