Nikki Piper has never been here.

She’s not accustomed to the flat-screen TVs, the modern art, the new computers and the spacious rooms. But she’s getting used to it.

“It’s my first time here, and it’s rather large,” said Piper, from Russellville. “It’s a lot more spaced out, and I like it a lot.”

Piper is a patient at the Western Kentucky Orthopaedic and Neurosurgical Associates, which has moved into its new building off Lover’s Lane. The new, 73,000-square-feet facility is bigger, trendier and more high-tech.

When the doors slide open, patients are greeted by a gift shop to the left, a wraparound check-in desk and a waiting room that stretches from each side of the building.

Cast-clad patients sat in the waiting room Thursday, chatting with one another and watching “The Parent Trap,” which was playing on two flat-screen televisions. One patient took advantage of the free wireless Internet; she worked on her laptop while waiting.

Construction began on the $15 million building in April 2007. The staff moved from its former location on Ashley Circle, and the doctors’ offices opened July 14.

“In the old office, we were just walking all over each other,” said Phillip Singer, an orthopedic physician.

The orthopedic and neurosurgerical offices are downstairs. Ten orthopedic doctors and one neurosurgeon have offices in the new building. WKONA employs about 55 workers. They share the lower level with new MRI machines, X-ray equipment, bone density technology and other up-to-date equipment, including computer systems that allow the facility to be completely “paper-free,” Singer said.

A flat-screen monitor sits on the wall opposite Singer’s desk in his office. When he needs to look at a patient’s records, instead of flipping through a file, he clicks a few buttons and the chart pops up on the screen. Each treatment room has similar technology for nurses and physicians.

“It was a big endeavor for us to do,” Singer said. “It’s not like we had a pile of cash we needed to dispense. Bowling Green needed a facility like this.”

It took five years to design the building and decide what they wanted to put inside. When other offices showed interest in the new building, WKONA decided to include other practices.

“It’s a one-stop shop for pain issues,” Singer said.

The second level houses Bowling Green Orthotics and Prosthetics, Orthopaedic Partners LLC, Magna Chiropractic, the WKONA physical and occupational therapy office, Greenview River Hospital pre-operative clinic and Lifeline Homehealth. Hines Pharmacy is also on the lower level.

The pre-operative clinic will open Sept. 2 and Lifeline Homehealth is set to open Sept. 8. Magna Chiropractic opens Monday.

“It’s the Wal-Mart of health care,” said Bryan Hawley, physician and owner of Magna Chiropractic.

Hawley was moving equipment Thursday, preparing to open the office in the new building. The office houses exam rooms, adjustment areas, a room set aside for blood tests and other reports, one room dedicated to disk decompressions, a stretching room with Pilates mats spread across the floor and a room set up for electrical stimulation.

“This office is the way of the future,” Hawley said. “... all these doctors under one roof.”

Across the hall in the physical and occupational therapy office, patients were lying on mats while therapists stretched their arms and legs. Some tackled the exercise machines, pedaling on stationary bikes or jogging on elliptical machines.

A man held weights in the air as he leaned against a pillow, while a woman gripped handlebars that were attached to the wall by a string, pulling them up and down.

But one piece of new equipment was vacant. Patients can stand on a small, trampoline-like piece of equipment and toss balls to a therapist to improve their balance.

“You’re not going to have a first-day patient on that,” said Brad Lear, program director for the WKNOA rehabilitation department.

Back downstairs, nurses escorted patients in wheelchairs and leg casts to examining rooms. Different patients trickled into the waiting room. Vanda Massey of Bowling Green took in her surroundings as she waited for a nurse to call her name.

“It’s just beautiful,” she said.