Ribbon cut on Med Center Health Glasgow

Published 6:00 am Saturday, April 26, 2025

By David Horowitz

BY DAVID MAMARIL HOROWITZ

david.horowitz@bgdailynews.com

 

Med Center Health plans to open its Glasgow facility Monday, providing primary and specialty care for residents in and around Glasgow and Barren County with the aim of improving health care access across the region.

More than 200 attended the Thursday ribbon-cutting at 401 South L. Rogers Wells Boulevard. The 22,000-square-foot Med Center Health Glasgow, which broke ground a year ago, cost $15.3 million before equipment and is likely one of Med Center Health’s largest outpatient centers, according to Laura Belcher, the facility administrator and vice president of planning and development for Med Center Health.

The facility contains 20 exam rooms and a host of diagnostic imaging and lab services, including those for bone density, CT, echocardiography, lab testing, mammography, ultrasound, vaccinations and X-rays.

Same-day and walk-in appointments will also be available, Belcher said. And, while it’s not set up as an urgent care facility, the center will provide care to those seeking urgent care if they need it, Belcher added.

It’ll help meet the need for more health care access and allow people to access services closer to home, Belcher said.

Some 34,750 Glasgow and Barren County residents last year were patients who attended Med Center Health facility for an outpatient service – whether a mammogram, a lab, physical therapy or something else, according to Belcher. That doesn’t account for patients who solely visited a physician’s office.

Meanwhile, 1,000 Glasgow and Barren County residents were admitted to one of Med Center Health’s campuses for inpatient services – and while the new facility doesn’t provide inpatient care, that type of care typically requires following up with a person’s providers, which can now occur at the new Glasgow facility, Belcher said.

“It’s a great day for the residents of Glasgow and Barren County; it’s also a great day for communities like Edmonton, Burkesville, Tompkinsville, Greensburg, Columbia and beyond,” Med Center Health Executive Vice President Wade Stone said. “One way to improve the quality of life in a community is to expand access to health care services, and that truly is at the heart of this project.

“… Increased access to primary care, specialty care and diagnostic services will improve quality of life in this region.”

Asked what increased access to care looks like, Jeffrey Purvis, a family physician medical doctor who’ll serve at the facility, said he envisions a place where a person can call their doctor and hopefully see them in a day or two rather than weeks or months out.

“I think you’re more likely to stay with the same provider, and you’re more likely to get consistent care,” he said.

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