FEBRUARY 2007: DISPATCHES
BEND
Central Oregon continues adding to its business community with
the announcement of Oregon
Dental Services’ plan to open a satellite office
and dental-hygiene school. The Portland-based health insurance
and dental service provider purchased an undeveloped site in
the Old Mill District that will become home to a multistory
building of about 90,000 square feet. ODS plans to have about
120 employees at the Bend location, along with a small class of
students at the dental hygiene school. Alan Shoebridge, an ODS
spokesman, says the company had been looking to expand its
presence in Central Oregon. After a failed attempt to build in
Redmond, Bend was the logical place to go, he says.
Construction on the new site will begin in July.
Patients no longer have to make a three-hour trip to Portland
for heart treatments now that a new heart center has opened its
doors in Bend. The $24.6 million facility boasts 70,000 square
feet of space designed for prevention, treatment and
rehabilitation. The Heart
Center houses a cardiology department, Heart Center
Cardiology, a combination of The Cardiology Group and Cascade
Healthcare Community, as well as two cardiothoracic surgeons.
It will also house the first pediatric heart center in Central
Oregon. The institute is a part of the St. Charles Medical Center.
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