HealthSouth opening big Las Vegas clinical center

Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2000 | 11:13 a.m.

The nation's largest provider of physical therapy services is building in Las Vegas its sixth all-in-one rehabilitation center housing diagnostic services, outpatient surgery and therapy.

HealthSouth Corp. is building its 75,000-square-foot Integrated Medical Plaza in part of a three-story building at 2650 N. Tenaya Way, amid a burgeoning row of medical offices, clinics and a hospital in northwest Las Vegas. Officials did not disclose the cost of the new HealthSouth operation.

It's HealthSouth's 17th facility in the Las Vegas area and 22nd in Nevada. But it's only the sixth in the nation that will have the three different types of facilities at one place. HealthSouth's focus in Southern Nevada is in rehabilitation and it is the market leader in that discipline in Las Vegas and the nation.

Lisa Recine, administrator of the HealthSouth Integrated Medical Plaza, said the physical therapy center opened last month and the diagnostic and surgery centers are scheduled to open at the end of August. She said the facility is expected to have about 22,000 patient visits next year.

"It (the new facility) makes health care a little bit easier for patients," Recine said. "They'll only have to make one visit and they'll know where everything is."

Recine explained that patients can come to the center to diagnose problems, have their physicians use surgical facilities to treat them and then rehabilitate in the physical therapy center.

The facility will include a state-of-the-art diagnostic tool that measures a patient's flexibility and strength. The Biodex Multijoint Systems 3 monitor makes assessments with a computer that can quantify a patient's rehabilitative progress.

Recine said HealthSouth is the largest tenant in the Tenaya Way facility. About 15 doctors, many of them orthopedic specialists, will set up offices and share the building. Recine said doctors in other disciplines also will lease space there.

Because the center will offer facilities strictly for outpatient surgery, there are no beds.

The diagnostic center will offer X-ray, CT and MRI scans and other radiological devices.

HealthSouth, headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., operates a network of rehabilitation facilities in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom and Australia.

The company operates more than 2,000 facilities worldwide, including outpatient surgery centers, diagnostic centers and occupational health care facilities.

In the publicly traded company's first quarter of 2000 that ended March 31, the corporation reported net income of $65.3 million, 17 cents per share, on revenues of $1.02 billion, compared with $109.9 million, 26 cents per share, on revenues of $1.03 billion in the same quarter a year earlier.