Hartford HealthCare's Mystic Health Center Underway

MYSTIC, CT—Construction is well underway after the town of Stonington approved a Hartford HealthCare proposal for a $24 million health center off I-95 and Coogan Boulevard in Mystic. It's slated to be completed in 2020.

“We are very excited about the opportunity to provide shoreline residents more convenient access to world class, high quality health services,” said Jeffrey Flaks, Hartford HealthCare’s President and Chief Operating Officer.

The HHC Mystic Health Center will be a 47,000-square-foot facility.

“This strategic investment in the community will improve access to needed services and aligns with our existing shoreline services from Rhode Island to Old Lyme,” Flaks said.

The health center will be a three-story complex that includes:

• Primary care
• Cardiology
• Imaging
• Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Services
• Pain Management services
• Headache services
• Movement Disorders Center
• Neurosurgery
• Other Neuroscience and specialty services
• Community education space
• Space for future offerings

The state-of-the-art building is inspired by the heritage of the Mystic region, property owner and developer David Lattizori said.

The proposed health center is located next to Mystic Aquarium at Lattizori's Perkins Farm Campus, a large mixed-use development project off Jerry Browne Road and will include a 55-plus adult community and housing for young professionals. Lattizori described the entire project as a "great economic development opportunity for the town, adding funds to the tax rolls and employees who will frequent local businesses."

“The Health Center is designed to be the most state-of-the-art medical facility in southeastern Connecticut,” Lattizori said. “It evokes a timeless nautical fell while also taking advantage of 21st century building materials, which will communicate to patients and the community that this is a world-class medical facility… we believe it will be the premier medical destination along the Connecticut shoreline for first class medical care.”

In a press release, Hartford Healthcae wrote that the center, "In keeping with the community’s roots and input from our soon-to-be neighbors, the facility is designed to subtly suggest a large ship, with a silo-like structure on the side that resembles a ship’s smoke stack, or funnel."

There's a dedicated webcam of the HHS Mystic Health Center construction project that can be viewed here.