Mid-South’s largest OB-GYN practice building bigger DeSoto presence
The largest provider of gynecological services in the Mid-South is setting out to give its DeSoto County patients a more efficient experience with a building tailored to their needs.
Memphis Obstetrics & Gynecological Association, P.C. (MOGA) expects to begin construction soon on a physician-owned, 10,500-square-foot building at Airways Boulevard and Clarington Drive in Southaven. The site sits approximately across the street from Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto.
“We’ll have more providers, more room,” said Dr. Fazal Manejwala, who established the DeSoto practice for MOGA in 1999. “We’ll have more visibility.”
MOGA lists 40 practitioners with a number of medical groups and eight locations in Memphis, Bartlett, Germantown and Southaven. The medical personnel assist women from puberty to menopause and beyond, offering prenatal, maternity and diagnostic services. Specific services include bone density scanning, mammography and various in-office procedures.
MOGA’s stable of physicians and nurse practitioners grew though the merging of established medical groups, a move that enhanced clinical services to each group and increased the range of services and expertise for all parties, officials said. According to Manejwala, the sheer number of physicians makes the practice the largest OB-GYN practice in the Memphis area.
The new DeSoto space, expected to be ready in July 2023, is about a half-mile south of the current site in Pinnacle Center One at Rasco Road and Airways. Over the years, the practice at Pinnacle Center has expanded gradually into blocks of space as other tenants left. The result was “an incongruous and inefficient space,” CEO Robert Burns said. “It’s like a maze.”
The new building, designed with doctor and patient needs in mind, will allow physicians and medical personal to “function at our highest capacity,” Burns said. It is being patterned after the Bartlett office of MOGA, which opened about two years ago and set off a growth spurt.
“We’re extremely busy at that location,” Dr. Aric Giddens, MOGA president, said. “It offers all the services at one stop … we’re going to kind of copy that model.”
The current DeSoto office includes a 60-person waiting room, and five doctors practice at the location.
The new DeSoto office will include 25 clinical rooms with a capacity for seven doctors and an expanded waiting room that will seat 160 people. The site also will provide ease of access with a traffic light and more parking. UrbanARCH Associates of Memphis designed the mixed-media building that will utilize window treatments to let in more light but maintain privacy.
MOGA officials hope construction begins in May. Pandemic supply-chain issues were considered in estimating completion of the building.
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Memphis Obstetrics and Gynecological Association Dr. Aric Giddens Dr. Fazal Malejwala Robert Burns Pinnacle Center One urbanarch North MississippiToni Lepeska
Toni Lepeska is a freelance reporter for The Daily Memphian. The 34-year veteran of newspaper journalism is an award-winning essayist and covers a diversity of topics, always seeking to reveal the human story behind the news. Toni, who grew up in Cayce, Mississippi, is a graduate of the University of Mississippi. To learn more, visit tonilepeska.com
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