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The planned $275-million Hamburg East Medical Office Building is part of a strategy to increase outpatient services.

Walsh Construction is contractor for a $275-million healthcare facility planned by the University of Kentucky and its academic medical center and health system, UK HealthCare.

Other partners on the planned 220,000-sq-ft Hamburg East Medical Office Building, which broke ground Oct. 15 in Lexington, include Perkins&Will as architect and healthcare and real estate firm PMB as developer.

The project is part of UK HealthCare’s overall strategy to expand access to outpatient services, according to the health system, which also has an outpatient clinic in Frankfort, another scheduled to open soon in Richmond and another planned at Newtown Pike, also in Lexington.

Substantial completion of the Hamburg East building is scheduled for December 2028, with the first patient visits targeted for spring 2029.…