BATAVIA — The new Healthy Living Campus on East Main Street will be a 78,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art facility will offer everything from primary care and exercise studios, to cancer screening, nutrition education services and multi-use spaces for all ages under one roof.
Completion is expected in late 2023. The site is 211 and 213 E. Main St., 1-9 Wiard St. and part of 211 1/2 East Main Rear.
The campus will feature 22 exam rooms and two medical procedure rooms. Rochester Regional Health-United Memorial Medical Center providers will use that space to offer primary care and telemedicine appointments, behavioral health and crisis intervention support, cancer prevention outreach, chronic illness and community education services. There will also be a drop-in child care center where families can safely leave their children while at those appointments.
The new campus, which will replace the current GLOW YMCA, will also have a new indoor pool, group exercise studios, wellness center with the latest exercise equipment and indoor walking/running track, teaching kitchen and adventure room play area for children. The campus will also feature an innovative intergenerational room, where seniors, teens and families can use the space for different activities every day. And it will have classrooms that during the school year will run pre-k and before- and after-school care programs, and camps in the summer.
Rochester Regional Health CEO Dr. Richard “Chip” Davis said the Healthy Living Campus is just one of several projects RRH is committed in bringing to Batavia.
Davis ran through some of the health components of the campus, talking more in depth about the planned teaching kitchen.
“This is something we’ve seen in the last few years as critically important, as we know people want to have access to fresh fruits, vegetables, healthier eating. What we’ve actually found in public health is that many people don’t know how to prepare those foods,” he said. “The ability to actually integrate that into our wellness programs is really critical. The Healthy Living Campus is truly an innovative answer to new, post-pandemic challenges. I think that all of us, over the last three years, certainly, of health care in the community have a very, very challenging time. It has been hugely difficult — in particular, in healthcare, for those of us who’ve been working together on this. We’ve realized that health is more than just physical health. It’s more than just going to the gym. It is about understanding wellness …”
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