Construction is moving ahead on MedNorth Health Center’s newest building.

The two-story structure, planned at the corner of North Third and Bladen streets, is set to add approximately 35,000 square feet to the health center’s campus. Work on the building broke ground in December, and construction is expected to wrap up in March 2026.

The additional space is sorely needed, according to MedNorth Health Center CEO Althea Johnson.

Johnson said space constraints of the existing 17,000-square-foot MedNorth clinic, located at 925 N. Fourth St., have hindered operations, limiting the number of patients clinic providers can serve daily. The expanded space will allow the clinic to serve more patients, grow its existing services and add new ones.

“The significance to us is that we’ll finally be unburdened by the space restraints,” Johnson said. “We will be able to improve our operations and hopefully improve just the overall quality of the work that we do, as well as patient satisfaction.”

MedNorth, formerly New Hanover Community Health Center Inc., was incorporated as a nonprofit in North Carolina receiving a 501(c)(3) classification in 1993. The center saw its first patient in the spring of 1994 and has been in continuous service since then, adding MedNorth Health Center as a dba (doing business as) in 2013.

 

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