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The Garrard County Healthcare Center is set to begin seeing patients on Thursday, October 22.
The center will include three leased modular buildings housing an internal medicine specialist, an outpatient laboratory, and a multi-specialty clinic.
The buildings will go on a six-acre property on Ky. 52 on Lancaster's east side that previously was the site of Southern States. The care center will employ 10 to 15 people initially.
The specialty clinic could offer rotating specialists in orthopedics, gastroenterology, obstetrics, pulmonary care, rheumatology and cardiology.
Eventually Pattie A. Clay plans to build a permanent structure on the site.
Garrard County's rapid growth and underserved medical needs were primary factors in bringing facilities to Lancaster. The U.S. Census estimates that between April 1, 2000, and July 1, 2007, Garrard County's population grew by 15.2 percent, making it the eighth fastest-growing county in the state.
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