Owen-Ames-Kimball Company (O-A-K) has begun construction on a 62,000sf, three-story medical facility for Family Health Centers of Southwest Florida (FHC) in central Lehigh Acres.
The $16 million medical building will be centrally located at 3415 Lee Boulevard, directly across from Sunshine Elementary School, Quest Diagnostics and Palm Acres Charter School. Upon completion, it will be FHC’s largest facility, housing a variety of medical, dental and administrative offices.
Matt Hoffman is the project manager, Tim Harkins is project superintendent and Abel Natali is project estimator.
O-A-K also constructed FHC’s Estero facility and has renovated one of its clinics in Fort Myers. They are among the health center’s 13 facilities and 20 practices in Lee, Charlotte and Hendry counties. FHC offers primary health care, preventative health care, disease management and educational services for all patient groups, including the medically underserved, migratory agriculture workers, the homeless and other special populations. About 94 percent of the patients it serves in Lehigh Acres are considered low-income according to federal poverty guidelines.
Currently, FHC leases space in Lehigh and provides adult medicine, pediatrics and dentistry to the underserved patient population. The new facility will be approximately five times the size of its leased space, allowing FHC to serve more patients and add pharmacy, optometry and chiropractic practices, as well as chronic disease management and lab services.
For more information, please visit www.owen-ames-kimball.com.
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