Sharrett, also Greene County’s coroner, said he’s spent $3.4 million to buy and transform a foreclosed plastics factory on the village’s western edge into a one-stop medical mall.
The Living Water Professional Building, 4940 Cottonville Road, will house not only Jamestown Family Medicine — which now has four family doctors, including Sharrett — but a time-share suite for specialists in areas such as cardiology, orthopaedics, obstetrics/gynecology, general surgery and digestion.
IHS Pharmacy, an independent with locations in Xenia and Fairborn, also plans to open a pharmacy in the building this summer. IHS expects to run a brisk medical equipment business there, said Steve Weeks, IHS co-owner and a pharmacist.
Miami Valley Hospital, which is leasing 20,000 square feet for 12 years with potential extensions, set up the time-share suite. It began offering physical therapy services this month. In July, it will make X-ray services available. And Sharrett eventually hopes to bring a dentist to town.
Tom Daskalakis, Miami Valley Hospital’s vice president of business development, said the hospital saw an “tremendous underserved need” in the Jamestown area.
“We realized medical services, particularly east of Xenia, are limited,” Daskalakis said. “We see a draw easily over 10,000 individuals that could potentially need these services.”
Miami Valley Hospital’s push into eastern Greene County comes as the competing Kettering Health Network prepares to open a hospital in Beavercreek.
It’s unclear how many service lines might move from Greene Memorial Hospital in Xenia to the new Beavercreek hospital, though Sharrett said he has concerns. The Xenia hospital last year stopped offering inpatient maternity services, which will be available in Beavercreek. A KHN spokesman this week said only that plans for the Beavercreek and Xenia hospitals haven’t been finalized.
Daskalakis said KHN’s plans in western Greene County didn’t factor into Miami Valley Hospital’s decision to establish a presence in Jamestown. “If Greene Memorial stays as they are, the need is still there,” he said.
Sharrett’s practice is part of Premier HealthNet, which like Miami Valley Hospital is part of Premier Health Partners.
Sharrett, 45, said bringing the project to fruition has been something of a Cinderella story. “Jamestown has never had any kind of ancillary medical services,” though in the mid-20th century it still had a hospital, he said.
“The people I take care of here aren’t just my patients; they’re part of my life,” he said.
Charles “Butch” Horney, whose appointment with the medical center’s orthopaedic surgeon led to operations on both of his hips in recent months, said the center’s a community asset.
“That really helps a lot of elderly people here in town,” said Horney, 75. “A lot of them don’t have any cars or transportation. It’s easier to get a ride to the edge of town than go to Xenia or Dayton.”
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-7457 or bsutherly@DaytonDailyNews.com.
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