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Doctors' Group Invites Community to Ground Breaking - April 23, 2008
 | | A bird's-eye view of the current Williamstown Medical Associates on Adams Road. |
WILLIAMSTOWN — Williamstown Medical Associates is inviting its patients and the community to the groundbreaking ceremony for its new health center on Adams Road.
The event, marking the practice's 50th anniversary, will be held Tuesday, April 29, at 12:15 p.m.
"We invite all of our patients and the community to help us celebrate 50 years of service to the Northern Berkshire region," said Dr. Robert Jandl, president of associates. "This will be a significant day in our history, as we mark an important anniversary even as we break ground for the future."
Jandl added that there will be a welcoming event scheduled when the facility opens later this year.
An artist's rendering of the new Williamstown Medical Associates building.
WMA will build the new 10,000-square-foot center on land adjacent to its existing facility.
Williamstown Medical Associates opened its doors on April 29, 1958, with "the first building in Northern Berkshire to be expressly planned and constructed" to serve as medical offices. Drs. H. Collier Wright and Robert K. Davis formed the practice and opened the new building. Dr. Wright was chief of medicine and cardiology at North Adams Hospital, and a consultant in internal medicine at the former W.B. Plunkett Hospital in Adams.
A story in the North Adams Transcript from April 28, 1958, noted that the building had "four separate suites of offices for individual doctors, the building is also designed for central group practice. This means that major facilities such as laboratories and X-ray rooms will be used by all doctors in the building."
The existing building was expanded in 1961 when space was added for more doctors and staff. Several other additions followed through the years.
The new building will be 4,000 square feet smaller and more efficient. A number of the departments, such as obstetrics/gynecology, have moved to the new doctors' building at North Adams Regional Hospital.
The current facility will remain open while the new one is built nearby on the 3.4-acre site.
WMA is one of the largest physician-owned multispecialty practices in New England. Services are delivered by 29 providers in the specialties of adult medicine, pediatrics, general surgery, neurology, podiatry, and pulmonology. The practice is also recruiting for additional primary-care providers, as well as specialists in rheumatology and endocrinology. WMA also offers nurse telephone triage services, laboratory specimen collection and bone densitometry.Services are available at the Williamstown facility. |
| it would be nice to have a time capsule buryed and to be open in 50 years | | from: dan kimball | on: 04-23-2008 |
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