The new Centra medical building in Lynchburg, Va., will consolidate services for patients in the area while allowing staff to relocate from cramped workspaces, according to an article on the News & Advance website.

The $13 million center will include occupational health, rehab and primary-care services. According to the article, the consolidation is part a broader effort to provide patient convenience, move doctors to more efficient facilities and potentially relieve swollen emergency departments in the region. 

“I can’t wait,” said Dr. James Cure, the medical director of Lynchburg Internal Medicine, who works at the smaller building near Lynchburg General Hospital. Cure has worked in the half-century-old building for 20 years, he said, and has watched as patients and employees alike have become cramped as the practice has grown.

“If you could ask any primary-care physician if they could expand their group … they would all do it,” Cure said. “It’s kind of like the ‘Field of Dreams’ right now. If they build it, they will come.”

Read the article.