At the approximately 200-acre campus, Cincinnati Eye will join an outpatient center of Dayton Children’s Hospital, Greentree Health Science Academy, Bidwell Surgery Center, Atrium Family YMCA, Otterbein Senior Lifestyle Choices, as well as medical offices, outpatient physical therapy and a daycare, Turner said.
“We have room for expansion of our own services or partnerships,” Turner said.
The location, seen from the highway, prompted Cincinnati Eye Board Chairman Dr. Robert Foster to call Atrium a “medical destination.”
“It gives us an opportunity to be in a place that’s easily recognized and easily accessed,” Foster said.
Plans were previously announced that Cincinnati Eye would build a new $4.5 million, approximately 17,000-square-foot office at Atrium, which will replace the independent practice's existing office on Central Avenue when it opens next summer. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Wednesday before construction starts.
“They wanted a bigger building so they could take care of their existing patients, but they wanted to add more sub specialists,” Turner said. “Now what that means for the community, and having it on the campus, is that we’re going to have several ophthalmology sub specialists available right here locally and for people with vision problems, obviously travel can be an issue, so it’s going to be great to have them here.”
Cincinnati Eye, which has 17 regional offices, was “bursting at the seams” in Middletown and needed to expand, according to the group. The larger space means the eye doctors and specialists will be able to see more patients, and more doctors could be added in the future, said Dan Miller, medical director for Cincinnati Eye.
Middletown is also the further most north location for Cincinnati Eye, which has been growing patients due to an aging population and the growing Interstate 75 corridor, Miller said. By being neighbors with the hospital, Cincinnati Eye’s doctors will have close proximity to surgery rooms. Also, Atrium patients could benefit from having an eye care option next door, he said.
Cincinnati Eye offers general ophthalmology services as well as specialty treatment and surgery related to cataracts, glaucoma and retinal disease, among other services, Miller and Foster said.
The practice is based in Blue Ash with about 60 doctors altogether and over 400 employees, they said.
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