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The South's leading neurology group will consolidate its Germantown office with part of its Midtown practice into a new $12 million ambulatory surgical center on Humphreys Boulevard.
Semmes-Murphey Clinic plans to move into a 50,000-square-foot building to be built at 6325 Humphreys. Boyle Investment Co. will begin construction later this month and plans to complete the work in about 14 months.
Semmes-Murphey in August won a $3 million certificate of need from the Tennessee Health Facilities Commission for an MRI unit and the surgery center. The relocation will cost about $8 million for Semmes-Murphey, practice administrator Jeff Strawn says.
Though licensed as an outpatient surgery center, the facility will only do simple procedures initially, including pain injections and treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome.
"As of now I'm not planning to do any back surgery there," neurosurgeon Kevin Foley says. "I do outpatient endoscopic discetomies...